In this short series, Mark Wegierski tries to grapple with the conceptual implications of the post-2008 financial crisis, suggesting there are difficulties with the conventional views of both Left and Right. We should try to look at what the so-called “anti-system opposition” (opozycja antysystemowa) may hold in common.
Are there indeed some convergences between the authentic left and right?
One should not take the current-day Conservative Party of Canada, with its focus mostly on tax cuts and budget cuts, as the best that the right can offer today. In fact, the cutting-edge thought of those persons said to be on the right today is rather closer to social democracy, or at least making an argument for the better aspects of social democracy, while discarding the worse. At its best, the right argues for a situated community, an authentic sense of meaning and belonging, which then serves as a real and plausible rationale for the welfare-state.
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