'The idea of organizing a state around a distinctive civilization is increasingly gaining ground around the world,' writes MacaesBruno. 'Countries such as Turkey, Israel, India or China now constitute the best candidates for civilization states'
Countries such as Turkey, Israel, India or China now constitute the best candidates for civilization states and have a renewed claim to be part of the global search for the most compelling political beliefs and political system for delivering the good life. Judaism and Hinduism, for example, have for thousands of years developed answers to fundamental political questions on freedom, justice and equality.
But these countries will fail to become civilization states unless they are able to navigate between the liberalism they no longer accept on the one hand, and the ethnic or religious nationalism they feel tempted by on the other. The civilization state is a third type beyond both liberalism and nationalism.
Why should a Jewish or Hindu civilization state refuse to accept the existence of different traditions and ideas? Why should it demand others accept the loss of hope and happiness? Why should Ben Gvir feel that the way for Judaism to become a light upon nations is to storm the Temple Mount complex and ritually humiliate Muslims and Palestinians? If these civilization states see themselves as superior to liberal ideas then they must offer better solutions than liberalism has done to the...
A civilization looks up from the world of blood and instinct to the world of light and progress. The challenge today is to turn the revolt against liberalism into a civilizational rather than a national project.
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