No Third Way: A Comparative Perspective on the Left

摘要: While the attention of world has been focused on startling transformations in Communist world, equally important if less dramatic shifts have occurring noncommunist parties Left. Although noteworthy, since they do not involve revolutionary economic and political changes, are as ideologically significant, for represent a withdrawal from centralized redistributionist doctrines democratic Left t. Their record confirms conclusion Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister France’s first majority Socialist government, who noted spring 1990: „We thought we could find th’xd way, but it/,. turned o here isn’t one.“2 In country after country, socialist other left parties-have taken ideological road back to capitalism. This movement right, well advanced many countries, stands contrast behavior our own traditionally moderate party, Democrats, last decade. Though opposed socialism, operating within most anti-statist society industrialized Democrats moved left, direct center elsewhere.