Single Idea 23127

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community]

Full Idea

Where conservatives believe in the renewal of traditional community, liberals believe as well in the flight from family and tradition into new kinds of communal order. …It is an idea of assembling confidence and energies for reform.

Gist of Idea

Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups

Source

Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 1)

Book Reference

Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.72


A Reaction

He cites Greenwich Village as an example. This suggests that his vision is a little narrow. His communities are for radicals who flee to join like minds in big cities. Politics must care about community for those left behind. Pubs, sport and pets.