Toward a new ideology

Timothy Burke offers a delicious provocation calling for a new ideology: Working On Our Ism

We are against Trump and Farage and LePen and Orban and Weidel, but what are we for? What do we call it, if “socialism” is either hopelessly abstract or tied to references that don’t translate into the present? Could we give a positive, e.g., not defined by negation, description of what electoral majorities want other than fascism or ethnonationalism, and from that granular description, coin a new ism ?

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But somewhere in all of that is not so much an anti-capitalism, defined by negation, but a vision of shared social life that is other than capitalism. Something other than liberal modernity or mass society. To give whatever that it is a name of its own and a pathway to concretization I think involves more conversations about these ideas before we try to make parties or movements or policies.

This seems overlapping with but not the same thing as the Radical Liberalism of the Liberal Currents crew I admire. Burke describes something which includes governance and economics but not limited to them — a social vision with an ethos.