Clinton's American Nightmare, "The Third Way"

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DLC | Event | April 25, 1999
The Third Way: Progressive Governance for the 21st Century
By Roundtable Discussion
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=128&subid=185&contentid=880
Click here to view the taped broadcast.
http://www.connectlive.com/events/dlc/

President Bill Clinton led a roundtable discussion with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and DLC President Al From in a DLC forum, The Third Way: Progressive Governance for the 21st Century. Joined by honored guests British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, and Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, the event was a natural follow-up to the NATO conference. It focused on the common domestic implications of rapid changes in world economic and social trends, and the efforts of Third Way reformers to modernize the politics and policies of center-left political parties in Europe and the United States.
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This forum represented a continuation of an international Third Way dialogue begun in 1997 by Prime Minister Blair and Mrs. Clinton in London, and continued in 1998...
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http://www.socialdemocrats.org/blairandschroeder6-8-99.html
Europe: The Third Way
By Tony Blair, British Labour Party Prime Minister, and Gerhard Schroeder, German Social Democrats Prime Minister, June 8, 1999
www.labour.org.uk
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Schroeder and Blair turn their attention to a new "supply-side" agenda for the left that will increase employment and expand job opportunities in pursuit of a cohesive society. Product market competition and open trade is essential to stimulate productivity and growth, the leaders stress. This new Social Democratic agenda calls for a corporate tax cut while actively promoting government initiatives to increase employment.
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Neoliberalism, the Third Way and Social Work Draft
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critically explore the idea of the Third Way and look at what Third Way .... example, in a speech to the TUC in 1997, Tony Blair identified the first task ...
http://www.socwork.de/Ferguson2004.pdf

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http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/econ101/neoliberalDefined.html
What is "Neo-Liberalism"?

A Brief Definition

by Elizabeth Martinez and Arnoldo García
Updated: February 26th, 2000

"Neo-liberalism" is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.

"Liberalism" can refer to political, economic, or even religious ideas. In the U.S. political liberalism has been a strategy to prevent social conflict. It is presented to poor and working people as progressive compared to conservative or Right-wing. Economic liberalism is different. Conservative politicians who say they hate "liberals" -- meaning the political type -- have no real problem with economic liberalism, including neo-liberalism.

"Neo" means we are talking about a new kind of liberalism. So what was the old kind? The liberal school of economics became famous in Europe when Adam Smith, a Scottish economist, published a book in 1776 called The Wealth of Nations. He and others advocated the abolition of government intervention in economic matters. No restrictions on manufacturing, no barriers to commerce, no tariffs, he said; free trade was the best way for a nation's economy to develop. Such ideas were "liberal" in the sense of no controls. This application of individualism encouraged "free" enterprise," "free" competition -- which came to mean, free for the capitalists to make huge profits as they wished.
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American Nightmare
Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization
Wendy Brown
http://ptx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/34/6/690
University of California, Berkeley

Neoliberalism and neoconservatism are two distinct political rationalities in the contemporary United States. They have few overlapping formal characteristics, and even appear contradictory in many respects. Yet they converge not only in the current presidential administration but also in their de-democratizing effects. Their respective devaluation of political liberty, equality, substantive citizenship, and the rule of law in favor of governance according to market criteria on the one side, and valorization of state power for putatively moral ends on the other, undermines both the culture and institutions of constitutional democracy. Above all, the two rationalities work symbiotically to produce a subject relatively indifferent to veracity and accountability in government and to political freedom and equality among the citizenry.