THE POLITICAL UNITY SPECTRUM: A THEORY OF LEFTRIGHT POLITICS, FROM LIBERALISM TO EMANCIPATORY PROGRESSIVISMSADEGHI, AminEUL Journal of Social Sciences / LA Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
This review presents a critical account of the most powerful critique of liberal political thought to have emerged in recent years: a critique it calls the 'politics of compulsion'. Drawing on the work of a wide range of critics of contemporary liberalism, this article contends that although th...
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. ... Liberals also ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies and other barriers to trade, instead promoting free trade and marketization. ...
The idea that political tribalism might just as easily drive the behaviour of an Oxbridge professor, a PR director on a six-figure salary or a young university student often simply fails to compute, but it is a real and frequent occurrence nonetheless. Being educated and even nominally aware o...
Very often, populism is a threat to the idea of civil society understood as a concept integral to liberal political theory, as a means of balancing the state and its wider interlocutors. In this paper, various means, largely inspired by the writings of Tocqueville on the one hand and Paul...
none of their resulting reconstructions is stable: they do not adequately provide for the creation and maintenance of the people or institutions that could support liberal priorities.; I offer that contemporary liberals might be divided into three categories that suggest their deficiencies on these issu...
lies that prostitution is a victimless crime, that she chose it, or even that prostitution isn’t really happening at all –enable people to avoid the discomfort of knowing about the brutal realities of prostitution. And sex businesses rely on social, political and legal denial of denying the...
while at the same time I am strongly disposed to think any policy solutions the state could enact are bound to fail. Consequently, I am more likely to be harsher to the dialogical illiberalism on the right side of the political spectrum, yet more knowledgeable of the dialogical illiberalism ...
Beyond the political spectrum, an effective struggle against terrorism is prevented by "the liberal policy of granting freedom of speech, which is given in a very clear manner. The Europeans won't give up on free speech for someone, even when it's incitement." ...
passing comments on these matters proved remarkably prescient—for example his smug dismissal of Russian communism as destined to failure in the West, and his prediction of the rise of a European union.) Above all, he hardly acknowledges the existence of ‘left’ and ‘right’ in political ...