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A JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND THE ARTS

 

NATIV   ■   Volume Sixteen   ■   Number 1 (90)  ■  January 2003   ■  Ariel Center for Policy Research

 

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Liberal Democracy vs. Transnational Progressivism

John Fonte

The key concepts of transnationalism can be described as follows: The primary political unit is the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic or gender) and not the individual. Groups are divided into oppressors versus victims, which is largely the Hegelian-Marxian dichotomy between privileged versus oppressed groups. Institutions within society must provide representation to the diverse groups, i.e. group proportionalism is to substitute for the individual vote that heretofore formed the basis of constitutional democracy in the United States. On the global level, transnationalism, as the word conveys, advocates termination of the nation-state in favor of world citizenship that will construct some form of world governance subject to “international law.” The author discusses the implications of transnational ideology for democracy in the United States, which he connects with the post Zionists in Israel.

 

 

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