Scientific Third Wayism

[Brad Mayer]

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Kevin Robert Dean crossposted:
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> > http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/giddens/giddens_p2.html
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> Apologies in advance for this superlong post, but Giddens spouts some
> really toxic, deeply devious stuff, so I had to power up the gluon gun
> (let the hosing commence!). Giddens says:
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What I found most interesting in the passage below was its neo-Keynesian
qualification, "at least it failed in its more extreme versions", which is
to say _that it does not fail_ in its normalized imperial form.  It is an
indication that, if class push were to come to shove, Third Wayists will
execute a 'reverse course' in their "ideology of symbolic capital" - after
all, "The driving force of the new globalization is the communications
revolution."

Also of note was the militantly pro-capitalist tone of the Echo
interviewer(s), saturated as it was with that special sort of American
rudeness.  One of the side effects of Seattle was the way in which it
pricked the ideological bubble of the Technoisie, who now realize they don't
have a free ride with their New Enclosure movement on our future.
-Brad Mayer
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> "For about 30 years after the Second World War the dominant view on
> the whole, which was institutionalized in many countries, was of a
> beneficent
> state guided by some kind of view of the idea of managing a capitalist
> economy more effectively than it could manage itself by market forces.
> And that essentially failed, at least it failed in its more extreme
versions,
> the Soviet Union obviously being that version."
>


> -- Dennis
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