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INTERVENTIONS Jason C. Myers Ideology After the Welfare State The curious employme nt of the term ‘liberal’ in American politics is well-known. While, in the rest of the world, ‘liberals’ occupy a position on the Right of the political spectrum, in the United States, to be identied as a ‘liberal’ is to be grouped with the Left. An anomaly, to be sure, but not one whose origins are too difcult to trace. Like weak currencies staked to the value of the dollar, the most common American political labels are pegged to the underlying value of one’s position vis-à-vis the welfare state: liberals in favour of it, conservatives opposed. Elsewhere, the liberal tradition found its roots in a particular concept of individual freedom. In the US, however, ‘liberal’ somehow came to mean ‘free-spending’, with particular reference to the state’s social welfare bud- get. These days, of course, self-confessed liberals of the generously spending kind are increasingly difcult to nd. Once in ofce, President Clinton quickly shook o ff the o utmoded ‘Traditional Dem ocrat’ campaign platform with which he had won election (urban renewal and a national health-care plan) for the sleeker, sexier ‘New Democrat’ line: ‘An end to
Historical Materialism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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