On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:55:44 -0500 Ralph Dumain <rdum...@autodidactproject.org> writes: > Looks like the real story to me. Notice the entry ends with Gerald > Ford. Social liberalism was killed off during the Carter > administration. The secret of all mysteries lies in the '70s.
One of the ironies is that probably the greatest philosophical defense of American social liberalism, John Rawls's *A Theory of Justice* came out just as social liberalism was beginning to die out. I don't think that it is any great mystery what happened in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s, we had the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. It became clear that the institutional framework which modern capitalism had been working under since the 1930s and 1940s was no longer politically viable. It, therefore, came under challenge both from the left and the right. But as things turned out, the right (which was rapidly gaining the support of big business), was much better positioned to institute a new political framework than was the left. Hence, from the mid-1970s on, we see the rise of neo-liberalism, with the state attempting to promote economic expansion by holding down wages. Thus, the efforts to unravel the social safety net that that had been put in place under the New Deal and the Great Society. Jim F. http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant > > At 05:39 AM 1/26/2010, CeJ wrote: > >Sometimes in the American political lexicon, a 'liberal' is > someone > >who espouses a very weak form of > >'social democracy' European style. Classical liberals, an > >understanding most Americans know nothing of, have ended up over > >amongst the libertarians I suspect. I suspect the contradiction > that > >lies within Barrage Obushwa is warpigism vs. social > internventionist > >liberalism. A religious belief in America and its right to > dominate > >the world is always the glue that keeps such incoherence going. > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States > > > >History of modern liberalism in the United States > >... > > > _________________________________________ > > "If you don't know the '70s, you don't know shit!" > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > ____________________________________________________________ Criminal Lawyer Criminal Lawyers - Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=QWemd8GuspwwZyl1yNMMaAAAJ1AP8ttsZd_TbiVxkZxsC3mBAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAiFgAAAAA= _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
