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"We establish for the moment a new world order. 11 September 2001everything changed."
 
Amitai Etzioni
on July 26, 2003 in an interview with
Afgan Mania in Germany
."A communitarian ethic increasingly governs health care in the U.S. It places a greatervalue on the health of the community, on society as a whole, than on the health of particular individuals. Public health officials have put together a vaccination scheduledesigned to eliminate infectious diseases to which the population is prey."Officials recognize that these vaccines will harm a small percentage of (geneticallysusceptible) individuals, but it is for the common good. The communitarian code positsthat it is morally acceptable, if necessary, to sacrifice a few for the good of the many. Oras one observer more bluntly puts it, "Individual sheep can be sheared and slaughtered if it is for the welfare of their flock." This information is provided by
Mercola.com
, theworld's most visited and trusted natural health website."The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance,to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmentalorganizations can cope with." Amitai Etzioni at September 7th, 2004 conference at the Hague titled,
"Europe, ABeautiful Idea"
 
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Quotes that validate the ACL thesis that communitarianismIS the synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic:
"The market economics of the Right and the government bureaucracies of the Left have weakened society's connectedness. They have not beeneffective forums for collective action. For Right-wing politics, this is notmuch of an issue. It has always believed in the supremacy of individualfreedom and individual action. For the Left, however, it is a hugeproblem...The old ideologies positioned politics as a struggle for ownership,the historic battle between socialism and capitalism. The Third Way, bycontrast, sees politics as an exercise in communitarianism: rebuilding therelationships and social capital between people. It aims to put the socialback into social justice. This is an important strategy for combatingindividualism and generating a sense of collective responsibility in society. "
Australian Fabian Society
,
 Re-inventing Collectivism: The new Social Democracy
by Mark Latham, Member for Werriwa Third Way Conference,Centre for Applied Economic Research, University of New South Wales,Sydney, 12 July 2001*******************************************Starting in 1960, the doctrine of the movement, "National-EuropeanCommunitarism" whose social character was affirmed from the beginning,derived from national-communist positions.After the definitive elimination of the right-wing sector of the organizationin 1964, 
Thiriart
 would lead Young Europe in a direction in which twogeneral orientations dominate: on one hand, radical anti-Americanism and,on the other, a progressive approach to national-communist positions.Thiriart sees Communitarism as surpassing communism and not as itsopponent, this is a typical national-Bolshevik posture. In 1965, he definedCommunitarism as "national-European socialism" and he added that "in themid century, communism will become, wanting it or not, Communitarism"(19). In this, history has had to agree with him given that before the fall of the Soviet block, the economic reforms that were introduced in Hungaryand Romania took communist economy towards Communitarism (20)."Jean Thiriart's doctrinal works of the early eighties and those developed inthe same period by the P.C.N., assume this last tendency. For this purpose,
this party presents Communitarism as an "ideology of synthesis that
 
wishes to fuse Marxist-Leninist ideologies and national-revolutionaryones into a synthesis of doctrinal offensive: the socialism of the XXIcentury"
(47). From
MARXISM-LENINISM AND NATIONAL-BOLSHEVISM.
 
Bolsheviks.org
[emphasis added]*******************************************"In a passage that is notable for its vagueness, Azevedo says that the CEBsshould be the basis for a new communitarianism that rejects the two"bankrupt" models and systems "that are now polarizing the world,"capitalism and Marxist socialism.
This communitarianism is to be "adialectical synthesis, a new creation, superimposing itself on thesis andantithesis rather than retrieving them."
The passage illustrates thecontroversy in Latin American Catholicism between those who continue toendorse the "third-position-ism" (tercerismo) of Catholic social teachingand those (including all liberation theologians that I know of) who believethat only socialism can be in accord with Christian values." 
TheologyToday-Basic Ecclesial Communities in Brazil: The Challenge of a NewWay of Being Church
By Marcello deC. Azevedo, S.J.Washington, D.C.,Georgetown University Press, 1987. 304 Pp.*******************************************"Commercial immorality indeed. This is the recognizable universe of ourown time where the rich, capital, markets, and profit are still all attacked inthe fashionable press, academia, and art by people educated in MarxistSixties radicalism but completely ignorant or uncomprehending of the mostelementary principles of free market economics. The full force of Hegel'sstatism, whether today it is called "communitarianism," the "politics of meaning," or something else, thus descends on property. And when anykind of private action becomes a matter of money, employment, children,weapons, or political activity (in someone's definition), then the statecontinues on in, police (which may be Hegel's own 
neologism
, by the way),prosecutors, prisons, and all. Hegel, indeed, would be proud." 
Dr. KellyRoss, Ph.d.
 
See also:languageofliberty.com
's quotes on communism, socialism, fascism andcommunitarianism
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