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The "third way", in Britain, has come to be associated with the politics of Tony Blair and New Labour. And Anthony Giddens, the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, is frequently referred to as Tony Blair's guru as he has made a strong impact on the evolution of New Labour. In The Third Way, he makes a contribution to the debate now going on in many countries about the future of social democratic politics. The reasons for the debate are obvious enough--the dissolution of the "welfare consensus" that dominated in the industrial countries up to the late 1970s; the final discrediting of Marxism, and the very profound social, economic and technological changes that helped bring these about. What should be done in response, and whether social democracy can survive at all as a distinctive political philosophy, are much less obvious. This slim book has been described by Ian Hargreaves, former editor of the New Statesman and The Independent, as being a "landmark" in laying the intellectual foundations of the centre-left position.
Ian Hargreaves, formerly Editor of New Statesman and The Independent
"Tony Giddens has made the most significant contribution yet to laying the intellectual foundations of a modernized centre-left position. This book will be a landmark. It is a pioneering work of vital interest to the formation of political thinking on both sides of the Atlantic."
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A very readable apologia,
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This review is from: The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
Certainly approachable, this book charts a host of notions designed to appeal to New Labour (or perhaps it is the other way around). Ideas to do with the increasing 'fuzziness' of national boundaries appealed to me as real, but those concerned with the return to 'community' seemed romantic wishful thinking. But the way the book is structured, one can readily pick the ideas that appeal without having to swallow the whole ideology (perhaps because there isn't one, really?). At the end I was uncertain whether this really was a blueprint for a new Labour party, or a clever and readable apologia for their appropriation of distinctly Thatcherite approaches.
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The Principles of The Third Way,
By Antonis (Cyprus) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
Socialism has sure changed a lot since it was conceived as a political idea more than a hundred years ago. Utopian socialism is only a part of the what-ifs of intellectual history. Communism has been abandoned since 1991. Even though there is a solid movement of Neo-Marxists still around, orthodox Marxism has largely been discredited, while the new trends have yet to reach a consensus for political action. And Social Democracy has stopped being a strong political force since the rise of Neoliberalism.
In this context, Anthony Giddens, a popular British sociologist, tries to conceive a new set of principles for the new Socialist movement, what we now know as "Third Way Socialism". He begins by addressing the roots of Social Democracy and Neoliberalism (the Cold War), arguing that since the collapse of the USSR, the political challenges and the subjects to be addressed have significantly changed. Thus, a third way needs to be found between these two ideological traditions, which of course will be filled by the neo-revisionism of Socialism. He then moves on to address what he calls the five dilemmas of the modern world, specifically, globalisation, individualism, the relevance of left vs. right politics, political agency and the environment. Other subject matters are discussed, such as civil society, the nation state, the EU, the relevance of welfare, family structures, and so on. Reading this book, however, I started feeling that something is missing. But the answer after a while, became obvious. What is missing here, is the core of what Socialism (in its every previous form) has been about. And that is, a critique of capitalism. Socialism emerged as a movement in opposition to capitalism, and each socialist thinker, be it Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg, Bernstein or Callaghan, had in his/her view an alternative vision to the capitalist economic system that dominates us today. To strip this from the ideology, is to largely abandon what Socialism has been about. Thus to me, "Third Way Socialism" looks much less like Socialism, and much more like a revival and revision of modern (20th century) Liberalism. In my opinion, this book will be forgotten. It reads like a mix between a casual discussion and a political manifesto, discussing subjects in the abstract, giving the reader a feeling that it is rich in vocabulary, but poor in essence. I give this book 4 stars because it offers a simple explanation of the position of Third Way left-wing politics.
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UMMMM.....,
By Zimbo T (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
.......UUUUMMMMMM ......not too sure if Giddens is the father of the third way.....this ideology has been part of man-kinds' way of operating for millenia. Giddens has just commercialised it.
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