Billy Rojas' Radical Centrist Manifesto, Part I



The prolific Billy Rojas has just posted another impressive article, on the detailed philosophical and historical basis of Radical Centrism:
The Radical Centrist Manifesto
A PLATFORM for CRITICAL-MINDED MORAL POLITICS
By : Billy Rojas

Some the key themes I noticed:
• Reinventing Liberalism
• Radical Centrism as the politics of critical synthesis
• Ideas must be based on a) research, b) morality, and c) convictions
• Understanding that America's current parties are based on absurdities
• Integrating personal, social, and political responsibility
• Recognizing the non-economic basis of economic growth
• Systematic politics in which ideology is subordinated to scientific knowledge about the human condition

Perhaps the best way to get the flavor of his Manifesto is his description of Radical Centrist heroes, who:
were willing to take politics as they found it. Then they worked with the system, seeking out opportunities to create new alternatives for culture -thus their ideas were maximized as much as was thinkable under the circumstances of the past

Posted: Mon - August 22, 2005 at 01:45 PM        

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