Liberal Democracy, Liberalism and the West . . . concerning situation in our world today !!!

What is Western Liberalism? Liberals “generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern times”

Martha Nussbaum says that Alison Jagger considers the following: “liberals characterize ‘community and cooperation ... as phenomena whose existence and even possibility is puzzling,’ if not downright ‘impossible’”  This way of viewing liberal tradition is accurate, though berated by feminists and progressives, and the Left.  The concern with the decline of Western Liberalism is that its demise may free up and support social change, justice, and revolutions in countries that have been neglected or colonized by Western (as has  been said, often) Empires or powers. The question is are the values of Liberalism, since they are largely Anglo-European in origin, fettered with the ideas that have suppressed other countries (in the East or Global South), and are these values, i.e. freedom, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and freedom of religion, currently suppressing other part of the world besides the West.  The question is, do we still have a social problem in the world called Western Liberalism.  This certainly is the argument of progressives in America.  Another question is as to whether a new form of this ideology is rearing its head, in the world today.  Is there a return to such values?  Who is bringing these values up as legitimate these days? 

Bruno Maçãn brings up the possibility of civilization state, the thought is as follows. Maçãn conveys that “What distinguishes a civilization state is its ability to provide an overarching framework for social and political life and therefore a viable or plausible alternative to the liberalism of the West. The civilization state is a foundational concept reaching the deepest layer of collective existence”  The transition from liberalism to pockets and coaliltions of less influential countriesthere is the following scenario.  Maçãn writes, “Once liberalism becomes a provincial affair, it is no longer liberalism. Inevitably, it evolves into its own version of a civilization state” Is the civilization state the same beast as the imperial liberalism that has ruled the Western world and been forced on the East and Global South.  Is it time to revolt against any form of liberal democracy.  Maçãn states that “It is up to us to rise from the primitive unconscious of blood and nation to the future civilization state”

Again, as expected the tail end of Maçãn’s thinking is about nationalism, and this seems to be the sticking point for all involved. Can nations be sovereign, standing on their own, without corruption and colonizing other “territories?  Can smaller countries or economies grow in a liberal democratic world?  I realize I tagged democracy onto liberal, but this is the best way to frame these questions? The other option for the Left is a one world government that dictates to all people of the earth the fashion in which they do economics, speech, and religion (if the plan is not to stamp out religion, assembly, and speech).  Where do we go from here? 

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