Hirschman - The Rhetoric of Reaction

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	* "Even in the most 'advanced' democracies, many debates are, to paraphrase Clausewitz, a 'continuation of civil war with other means.'" (p. 169)		* "Even in the most 'advanced' democracies, many debates are, to paraphrase Clausewitz, a 'continuation of civil war with other means.'" (p. 169)
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Lesenswertes Buch über drei Typen reaktonärer Rhetorik in drei Epochen sowie deren Verhälnis zueinander und deren progressive Pendants.

Eine grundlegenderen Leerstelle im Buch ist aber folgende: die Reaktion ist in seinem Buch halt vor allem eine, die Reformen verweigert. Gerade in den letzten 20 Jahren nach dem Erscheinen von Hirschmans Buch war aber zu beobachten, wie sich die Reaktion/der Neoliberalismus den Reform-Begriff gekapert hat. Zuerst im ehemaligen Ostblock, dann auch im Rest Europas. (Exemplarisch auch die Begeisterung der INSM für die Agenda 2010 anlässlich von derem 10-Jahres-Jubiliäum).

Fazit: die Frage ist, ob es sich nicht lohnen würde, auch historisch Fälle zu untersuchen, in der sich "die Reaktion" nicht nur Reformen entgegen gestellt, sondern aktiv Restauration betrieben hat. Da passt dann der Begriff des "Konservatismus" eben weniger gut - und der gerade der Neoliberalismus ist mEn ja durch eine stark aktivistische Reformorientierung gekennzeichnet.

Ideen

• Steuermythen entlang der drei Typen Argumentationsstrategie kategorisieren
• Paper zum Thema "Rhetoric of Copyright Reaction & Progressivism" auf Basis der Gegenüberstellung auf S. 67:
  • Perversity / Imminent Danger
    • Reactionary: The contemplated action will bring disastrous consequences. (Levine: destroys culture)
    • Progressive: Not to take the contemplated action will bring disastrous consequences. (Lessig in Remix: criminalized generation
  • Jeopardy / Synergy
    • Reactionary: The new form will jeopardize the older one. (???: copyright helps artists)
    • Progressive: The new and the old reforms will mutually reinforce each other (Smiers/Schijndel: No Copyright; copyright is bad for artists)
  • Futility / Inevitability
    • Reactionary: The contemplated action attempts to change permanent structural characteristics ("laws") of the social ordeR; it is therefore bound to be wholly ineffective, futile. (Morozov)
    • Progressive: The contemplated action is backed up by powerful historical forces that are already "on the march"; opposing them would be utterly futile. (Jarvis)

Exzerpt

• "According to the perversity thesis, any purposive action to improve some feature of the political, social, or economic order only serves to exacerbate the condition one wishes to remedy. The futility thesis holds that attempts at social transformation will be unavailing, that they will simply fail to 'make a dent.' Finally, the jeapardy thesis argues that the cost of the proposed change or reform is too high as it endangers some previous, precious accomplishments." (p. 7)
• "Goethe defined his Mephisto as 'a part of that force that ever wills evil, but ever brings forth good.'" (p. 14)
• "Le Bon looks at the crowd as a lower, though dangerously vigorous, form of lief: 'None too good at reasoning, the crowd is on the contrary much given to action.'" (p. 25)
• "The perverse effect is a special and extreme case of the unintended consequence." (p. 36)
• "Gustave Le Bon: (...) It is fortunate for the progress of civilization that the power of the masses began to expand only when the great discoveries of science and industry had already been accomplished." (p. 98; Zitat aus 1895)
• On Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom": "Today's neoconservatives would be shocked on reareading it, for Hayek goes surprisingly far in endorsing what was later to be called the Welfare State." (p. 111)
• "Leisurely, sequential problem-solving is not always a pure blessing, as has been argued in the literature on political development." (p. 131)
• "in the effective use of the potent weapon of irony, conservatives have had a clear edge over progressives." (p. 165)
• "Even in the most 'advanced' democracies, many debates are, to paraphrase Clausewitz, a 'continuation of civil war with other means.'" (p. 169)

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