* Originally Published in revista 22 collection ' Fuzionismul: an experiment in doctrinaire of modern discourse '.

Father Marcel Guarnizo is President of think tankului ' Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe and a priest in the Archdiocese of Moscow.

Fuzionista idea of Frank Meyer signify curentelelor Alliance inside the conservative movement with schools of classical liberal and libertarian thinking, with whom I share the aim of economic freedom, guarantee private property and the desire to limit the power of the State. All this Alliance that virtually did not exist before 1945 reaches its peak with the rise of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and with a resounding victories against the Soviet Union.

This war has acted as a catalyst of the Alliance between various factions but otherwise now ended. Conservatism has lost his vision and today its strength. On the one hand, a social conservative like George Bush proved easy and unable to gain the trust of conservatives with concerns antietatiste. On the other hand there is the offspring of the calibre of William f. Buckley, Frank Meyer, Russell Kirk, Whitaker Chambers. And libertarienii, often inattentive to the issue of moral evaluation of life style lose sight of the role of founder of traditional culture.

But the history of the conservative intellectual movement in the United States provides invaluable lessons for the transformation and rebirth of civil society in Nations of Eastern and Central Europe. Because we in this region can learn from them and we can avoid some hesitation and pitfalls that may have slowed down the progress of the United States.

The differences and disagreements between partisans of a conservative society-at the same time free and virtuous and libertarian are manifold, but one of the issues is the religious. Because conservative movement in the United States do not define simply as anti-communist and anti-etatista, but also in favor of a transcendent moral order with recognition.

A distinction relevant here would be between the conception of man and teonomica conception of a complete autonomy, between a conscious existence dependent on God and a life of Marat as if God did not exist.

But inside the camp there is a religious importance and distinction here arrive at one of Western conservatism films. Protestant evangelicals and conservatives who dropped the idea of mediating authority and to the idea of reason in favor of simple beliefs based on truth revealed were able to distort the perception of religious faith as such. This can be seen today among classical Liberals, libertarienilor and secularistilor. However, the Nations of Eastern and Central Europe, not having a protestant ethos can avoid these problems.

Chance gets in the revival of an intellectual elite that would establish the theoretical future political body. Because all changes and revolutions begin in people's minds. The devastating Communist revolution for example, who just swept the States of Eastern and Central Europe has been putting into practice some of the ideas. The fundamental struggle is always a battle of ideas.

The context for a significant cultural or intellectual refundamentare is difficult. Today in Europe there is a different kind of "fuzionism", one procedural and the arbitrariness of the European Union achieved with Nations they have to comply if they don't want to live in isolation. The democratic deficit is actually a situation illustrated by the example of binding manner in which Irish people was forced to go to a second referendum on ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. This is only a theoretical framework dermatological deeply deficient cultural level, and at the political level and at the economic level which gives basic democracy today. It is about the ideological framework of radical type. And here stands today a terrible opponent of common libertarienilor and conservatives, in the Western world up in Eastern Europe. Because we are living today, forced all the dream of cultural hegemony gramscian Socialist. In front of this opponent, any distinction fades between libertarian and conservative.

The task of this intellectual elite is an integrative construction concepts of democracy, which will include the freedom of politics, economic freedom and cultural freedom, including in the latter and religion. They are intrinsically connected. The loss of economic freedom will always lead to the loss of political and cultural freedom, we know from Milton Friedman. The loss of political freedom (democratic deficit) will result in the loss of her economic freedom and the infringement upon private property by the State. We have the example of the recent political gangsterism of the socialist President Kristina Kirchner who after a procedural vote in Parliament seized private pensions of millions of Argentine citizens.

The role of cultural freedom in this equation is the most important. Cultural block formation of Western democracies is made up mainly of Christian religion and scientific disciplines, and especially of philosophy. The Socialist Revolution and its catastrophic results originate precisely in a philosophical and theological nonsense antropologica, about the nature of man. The destruction of the economic and political order is due to this serious cultural errors. Dovizioso origins to Rousseau, Frederic Bastiat commented: "… The legislature is the driver who invent the machine; the Prince is the only worker who put into the car … And what role individuals play here? I am the car put in motion. In fact, not only are they rough from which matter is made the machine? " The ideology of the radical move man in his natural legitatile in other gear created artificially. This error allowed antropologica dehumanization of man with the abolition of private property of free exchange between people, freedom of movement, expression and Association. Soon multiplied effects have returned back to the cultural level and has resulted in degeneration of Sciences.

If any of these freedoms pica, economic, political, cultural, the whole edifice crumbles. The loss of the cultural component is the most subtle, because she is not seen with the naked eye: its culture subsist primarily on the level of cognition. Cultural component deterioration lies in forgetting the fundamental ideas that have made possible civilization of the West. In preserving this heritage stand United conservative movement contribution. In the preservation of memory and of the idea that, in the words of Richard Weaver, the man "can not make their own willpower", without trying to keep account of the natural limitations of the structure of reality.

The idea of a reality structure independent of the will of man which man, by reason, is able to extract moral laws and rules is first and then abandoned by the Protestant movement nominalism is guilty of doing the same with abandon. And because Protestants are important in a conservative vein, I prefer to define me as a metafizician rather than a conservative realist. Even less can I consider libertarianism, because secular level, they feel closer to the vision of the Protestant Revolution brought atomizanta, in which the individual is postulated as autonomous as regards the interpretation of Revelation.

Many neoconservatori and they are made guilty of ignoring component cultuale. Their efforts to export democracy through institutirea economic and political reforms, ignoring the foundations of liberal democracy have led to mistakes in Iraq. Failure to understand the cultural realities of different civilizations is also a result of the error of anti-philosophical realism in the sense of Weaver and is ultimately a sample of radicalism. Therefore, I insist that the relevant front in political disputes should be around retrasat guidance antimetafizica radicals.

We are today witnessing a merger at the opposite pole of the intellectual and political Alliance: pole, radical environmentalists, feminists, anarchists, Communists, libertini antiglobalisti etc. They are determined to change what can be changed without serious disasters and moral civilizationale, namely the nature of reality and human being constitutive.

The most successful form of radicalism is what is called "radical democracy", "democracy" policy or what Rawls called "political liberalism". Perhaps surprisingly, Marx can throw light on the matter. Marx said that democracy is the path to socialism. And the idea was adopted without equivocation in the statements of the Socialist International. In the Declaration of the Stockholm Principles in light of the socialist answer is unequivocal: "Democracy is a framework policy and preconditia for all other rights and freedoms."

But if culture was secondary for Lenin took over the political and economic resources, the proposed new strategy follows the Socialists of Gramsci: cultural antagonismele are crucial for the destruction of capitalism. Democracy policy means that there are no absolute principles that stand as history and independently of political decisions. It assumes that all issues regarding political rights shall be subject to examination and can be changed without committing injustice. In other words, all issues are political issues.

Of course, the idea of being in control of the rights and freedoms of others, of being the source of the rights of others, is terribly appealing to a socialist who aspire to political power. The problem is that if all our rights emanate from democratic procedures we will be completely addicted.

Democracy-neosocialista policy (even if they say "liberalism" political affiliation) is a radical and in another sense. It splits up and absolute categories of marxism postulates finding serenity just in flow. What remains is only the formal voting procedure and the decision of the Government. John Rawls called lay at our core rights that precede and evade Government decision "comprehensive vision", and they categorize as foreign democratic spirit.

If so, allow me to recall one of the most "anti-democratic" documents ever written, the Declaration of independence of the United States from July 4, 1776: "we believe that these truths are self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As for the protection of their Governments are instituted among men … ". "Comprehensive Vision" antecedenta will manifested by voting and immune to it, it simply is not in the statement, and only here, but also in the European Convention on human rights, in the Universal Declaration of human rights and so on. Of course, neither of these Statements nor the Constitutions themselves are not autojustificative but are themselves founded on rules and history in the Western tradition notions of freedom.

They are Libertarienii and, like the Conservatives, advocates a "comprehensive visions". Because to them the fundamental right not to be attacked or threatened with physical aggression is fundamentally independent of axiomatic, so-called "popular will" expressed by vote. After you have ensured the fundamental right to bodily integrity all these intellectual schools related can move forward in the struggle to limit Government. But I can't help noticing that many libertarian parses wrong and first step, perhaps due to their general allergy to religion, perhaps for other reasons. Along with the proof of the fact that genetic human fetus belongs to our species, it is incomprehensible how they allow others to manage and Leviathanului the death of a seaman. Once again proves what the interpretation of rules in isolation, without the light of some important components of cultural tradition.

Beyond the problems between them, the Conservatives, Liberals and libertarienii classics can focus together on exposing various radicalisme errors, despite the names on them, giving them "democracy" or "liberalism". But the problems suggest that is insufficient as think in a tankurile, Division of labor, to provide a market to cover education and economic and political issues and culture. It would be desirable that think serious skills to acquire tankurile? e in all these areas. Because only if we will be able integrative approaches the problems of democracy, we will be able to build solid bases for the rise of various types of rights are confiscated by the state. Also try a construction in this area of Europe.

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