Liberal WP (fwd)

the rhetoric of the WP is definetly liberal. it is not a new discourse. 
the liberal ideology is hidden in the background because the WP does not
clearly specify where they politically stand. mind you that it
strategically avoids to pronounce a political standpoint, like
anti-systemic or anti-imperialist. we do not know whether they are X, Y,
or Z, but just a very loosely defined alliance, and a very general name
that sounds like the World Bank. i can understand this new age populism
because they also want to attract the support of corporations. you can not
do this with a marxist rhetoric. yeah, let it be so. what i am saying is
that this is not a new political strategy. it is reformist, but not
anti-systemic. then, do not come up with ideas as if you are discovering a
special treasury. marxists do not buy it. many bourgeois philosophers,
like kant, had said smilar things many moons ago. it is passe already.
there is nothing revolutionary with that. i am just trying to clarify the
situation as an observer...

Mine Aysen Doyran
phd, POLS
SUNY/Albany  



>Dear WSN people: I have been lurking for some time now, following with
>interest
>the proposal for a world party. I would like to see a real
>cosmopolitanism, and
>I see room for such thinking within a world in which there is an
>increasingly
>global economy. I know most of you seem opposed to co-existence with
>global
>capitalism (which is not a monolithic body), and I am not particularly
>enamored
>with some facets of the phenomena, but I don't think anyone is going to
>get rid
>of it. Indeed, I say develop a set of programs that "rides the wave" of
>the
>phenomena. Human rights, environmentalism, democracy and some creative
>thinking
>to undermine the corrupting influence of big money would seem an
>appealing core
>set of ideas. I would rather not see a last gasp of Marxism in the face
>of
>obvious defeat. Randy Groves, Prof. of Humanities, Ferris State
>University