ISBN : 9782296545458
NEOLIBERALISM AND RECENT CHINA: A CRITICAL REVIEW
I. The Accursed Share? "Liberalism" means different things to different people. As Thomas Nagel remarks, the term is used by the Left to criticize the Right for blind faith in the value of a free market economy and insufficient attention to the importance of state action in realizing the values of equality and social justice, while on the other hand, the term is used by the Right to reproach the Left for unrealistic attachment to the values of social and economic equality and the too ready use of government power to pursue those ends at the cost of individual freedom and initiative. "Thus American Republicans who condemn the Democrats as bleedingheart liberals are precisely the sort of people who are condemned as heartless liberals by French...