(Download) "Dead Center: Without a Vital Left Or Right, Politics has Lost All Principle (Ideas)" by The American Conservative * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dead Center: Without a Vital Left Or Right, Politics has Lost All Principle (Ideas)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 09, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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ALMOST COMPLETELY ignored in the excitement over Barack Obama has been the collapse of the New Left revival that peaked between the Nader campaign of 2000 and the Dean campaign of 2003. For a time, with the antiwar movement burgeoning and a deeply unpopular Republican in the White House, the politics of the late 1960s seemed poised to return. Even Students for a Democratic Society revived. But the moment quickly passed. This was more than the end of a fad--it was the death of a distinct American Left. Obama's mass following and the liberal blogosphere today are moved more by partisanship than ideology, and they have scarcely any sense of a political past. In other words, they have about as much connection to the historic American Left as the pioneers of the New Right had to the Old Right. To say that Markos Moulitsas and Obama's liberal netroots represent the triumph of centrism may sound absurd--as absurd as arguing that Richard Viguerie and the 1970s New Right heralded victory for the political Establishment. But Murray Rothbard built a persuasive case for just that claim in a 1977 Libertarian Forum essay, "The New End of Ideology?" The title was a play on Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology, which celebrated the triumph of the liberal-democratic center--Truman Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans--in the 1950s. Rothbard considered the partisan divide that started to take shape in the late '70s to be a new end of ideology because it marked a) the final transformation of the American Right into what could be rightly called a conservative movement, characterized by a "drive toward Establishment respectability"; and b) the end of the New Left, in which he and other libertarians once staked a great deal of hope, as it rejoined the Old Left.
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