Third Way

Origins

Criticism

Alternate meanings

• The "Third Way" of ordoliberal economics between Soviet-style communism and the free-market economic order of the Anglo-American type, leading to the social market economy.

• A "third way" approach to Cold War-era foreign policy, siding with neither the US nor the Soviet Union (this in turn spawned the phrase third world). See in that regard the Non-Aligned Movement.

• A "third way" approach to the concept of separation of church and state, neither theocratic nor atheist.

• A "third way" between the stultifying debates had by the left and right wherein arguments are so structural as to be static. One magazine offering an alternative voice -- that of the Christian worldview -- takes Third Way as its title.

• Benito Mussolini often described fascism as the third way between capitalism and socialism. In that vein, there is a modern neo-fascist movement known as the International Third Position or Third Positionists.

• Another group is Britain is known as the Third Way (UK) (unrelated to Tony Blair's concept of the Third Way). This is a breakaway group from the British National Front that claims to have disavowed racist politics and any form of fascism, and promotes a nationalistic approach to economic decentralization (similar to distributism), combined with support for ecological protection and libertarian views on some social issues such as abortion, gay rights, and marijuana. Critics still regard this group with some suspicion because of its past ties to the National Front, and some dispute their claims to have disavowed racism and fascism.

• In the late 1990s, several groups independently began using the term radical centre to refer to certain kinds of third way thinking.

• The Third Way is also used to describe the philosophy of Libyan leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi set out in his Green Book. It mixes Nationalism, Social-Democracy, Islam and a supposedly direct form of referendum democracy. It was also used by former Argentine President, Juan Peron to describe his philosophy which was basically a more democratic and liberal version of Mussolini's fascism.

• The Third Way is also used to describe a contemporary application of Hegel's Dialectics to modern politics. Thus, a "third way" is simply a synthesis of a thesis and its contradictory antithesis, such as Social-Democracy being a synthesis of Capitalism and its antithesis Communism. In this sense, Aldo Moro's historical compromise can be thought of as a "third way" between Christian Democracy and Communism.

External links

• Time Magazine called Apple's iTunes Music Store a "third way'" alternative to the free downloads of Napster and the litigation of the RIAA

• Third Way Magazine Current affairs magazine, written from a Christian perspective.

• Why Tony is not a guitar-wielding facist dictator; The Guardian, July 1, 2003—about Mussolini and Blair.

Funded by The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation

• Third Way Foundation
• Progressive Foundation

• Democratic Leadership Council (affiliate)

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