Even if you agreed with Buchanan's politics (God forbid), you should be wary of his "facts." He lies in a very discrete way, citing as "sources" sources that his real sources have egregiously and maliciously misquoted. In plain terms that is plagiarism. Lying plagiarism.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Natalie Golovin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:10natalie@cox.net">10natalie@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Suggest �The Origins of Political Order� by Fukuyama & �Currency Wars�
for p2p�s New Years Reading List. Buchanan�s �Suicide of a Superpower� is full
of facts-but not ones that would please the majority of readers.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="michel@p2pfoundation.net" href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">Michel Bauwens</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 25, 2011 6:02 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [P2P-F] Fukuyama on the absent left</div></div></div>
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nice displacement <g><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Apostolis
Xekoukoulotakis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xekoukou@gmail.com" target="_blank">xekoukou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid;MARGIN:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">The end of history guy talks about the future of history.
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<div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/25 Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid;MARGIN:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">thanks, a very nice summary of the neoliberal agenda!
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Peter Mazsa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.mazsa@theunitedpersons.org" target="_blank">peter.mazsa@theunitedpersons.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid;MARGIN:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">FYI:<br><br>"[...] It has been several decades since
anyone on the left has been<br>able to articulate, first, a coherent
analysis of what happens to the<br>structure of advanced societies as they
undergo economic change and,<br>second, a realistic agenda that has any
hope of protecting a<br>middle-class society.<br><br>The main trends in
left-wing thought in the last two generations have<br>been, frankly,
disastrous as either conceptual frameworks or tools for<br>mobilization.
Marxism died many years ago, and the few old believers<br>still around are
ready for nursing homes. The academic left replaced<br>it with
postmodernism, multiculturalism, feminism, critical theory,<br>and a host
of other fragmented intellectual trends that are more<br>cultural than
economic in focus. Postmodernism begins with a denial of<br>the
possibility of any master narrative of history or society,<br>undercutting
its own authority as a voice for the majority of citizens<br>who feel
betrayed by their elites. Multiculturalism validates the<br>victimhood of
virtually every out-group. It is impossible to generate<br>a mass
progressive movement on the basis of such a motley coalition:<br>most of
the working- and lower-middle-class citizens victimized by the<br>system
are culturally conservative and would be embarrassed to be seen<br>in the
presence of allies like this.<br><br>Whatever the theoretical
justifications underlying the left�s agenda,<br>its biggest problem is a
lack of credibility. Over the past two<br>generations, the mainstream left
has followed a social democratic<br>program that centers on the state
provision of a variety of services,<br>such as pensions, health care, and
education. That model is now<br>exhausted: welfare states have become big,
bureaucratic, and<br>inflexible; they are often captured by the very
organizations that<br>administer them, through public-sector unions; and,
most important,<br>they are fiscally unsustainable given the aging of
populations<br>virtually everywhere in the developed world. Thus, when
existing<br>social democratic parties come to power, they no longer aspire
to be<br>more than custodians of a welfare state that was created decades
ago;<br>none has a new, exciting agenda around which to rally the
masses.<br><br>AN IDEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE<br><br>Imagine, for a moment, an
obscure scribbler today in a garret<br>somewhere trying to outline an
ideology of the future that could<br>provide a realistic path toward a
world with healthy middle-class<br>societies and robust democracies. What
would that ideology look like?<br><br>[...] the agenda it put forward to
protect middle-class life could not<br>simply rely on the existing
mechanisms of the welfare state. The<br>ideology would need to somehow
redesign the public sector, freeing it<br>from its dependence on existing
stakeholders and using new,<br>technology-empowered approaches to
delivering services. It would have<br>to argue forthrightly for more
redistribution and present a realistic<br>route to ending interest groups�
domination of politics. [...]"<br><br><a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136782/francis-fukuyama/the-future-of-history" target="_blank">http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136782/francis-fukuyama/the-future-of-history</a><br>
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