Third Way

The term Third Way is used in different meanings. In general, it is used to refer to an alternative - to point in addition to two previously assessed as alternative possibilities - a perceived or actual new way.

Application of the term

As a third way is called:

• Certain economic concepts: To find alternative approaches to communism and capitalism, for example, free business, social threefold, competition socialism or personalism
• Ordo-liberalism and social market economy are referred to by some authors, in the annual economic report of the German Federal Government in 1990 as a third way between capitalism and socialism, other authors they separate ourselves from the "third ways" from.
• The economic reforms of the Prague Spring in 1968
• The attempt of the British sociologist Anthony Giddens, to find a middle way between laissez- faire liberalism and socialism. In his book published in 1998, The Third Way represents Giddens 's theory dar.
• Tony Blair, British Prime Minister from May 1997 to June 2007, pursued a policy of free market and the demarcation of collectivism under the keywords New Labour, " modern social democracy" and " third way"

• Attempts at mediation between communism and reformism, such as communitarianism or Austro-Marxism and other left-wing socialist currents (see also: centrism )

• A largely abgeschottetete from public discourse idea rather Catholic political parties in the post-war years up to the late 1970s, which would oppose the then bipolar world divided between Western liberalism versus Soviet Communism is a third way " to the rescue of Western Christian culture." This should be a " South Atlantic military alliance ", together with the clearly Christian-oriented European countries and South American and (white ) African dictatorships should belong in the form of a new Holy Roman Empire, and / or form. Konrad Adenauer and Franz Josef Strauss were among the at least intermittently active supporters of this pathway.

• The way the regulation of labor relations in the Catholic and Protestant churches in Germany: " First way " is the one-sided was carried out by the employer definition of work contracts,
• " Second way " the conclusion of collective agreements between employers and employees, as
• " Third way " is considered consensual design work contract guidelines and remuneration committees in equal numbers. The Third Way claims its foundation and legitimation in the constitutionally guaranteed right to self determination of Churches ( Article 140 of the Basic Law in conjunction with Article 137, paragraph 3 Weimar Constitution ). In fact, this constitutional provision is subject to the " for all applicable law." Since the Collective Agreements Act ( TVG ) not exempting the churches, this law also applies to the churches. ( Generally binding ) collective treaties can therefore only be established under the provisions of TVG. The rules of ecclesiastical commissions, according to settled case-law of the BAG only for the legal quality of " Terms and Conditions".

• In England, France, Austria and Italy are third position even radical cross- national revolutionary front ideologies understood (see also: Third camp ).

Supporters of third paths tend to place their idea under a positive light is, they place themselves as ' political center ' and set the positions of the other or the past in an ideological twilight, to make room for their own point of view.

Criticism

Ludwig von Mises criticized the efforts to find a third way between capitalism and socialism. He thought experiments of this kind, to limit a State for theoretically hopeless, since any intervention in the market system, a distortion of supply and demand picks up after themselves, which must be corrected by new interventions in turn until a state emerges with fully trained interventionism. 1929 Von Mises judges in his critique of interventionism: " There is no other choice than either of interference with the play of the market in sight, or the entire line of production and distribution to be transmitted to the authorities. Either capitalism or socialism means a thing does not exist. "