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In his "Liberality versus Liberalism," John Milbank certainly begins with good intentions, but the article is open to ambiguous understandings.1 Personally I have no difficulties agreeing with parts of his criticism. Like Milbank, I believe that since the collapse of "really existing socialism," which the soviet systems claimed to represent, "liberalism" is without a doubt the contemporary "bearer of modernity" and "progress." In addition, globalization is primarily a "liberal" phenomenon: the transformation of the planet into an immense single market. Milbank is equally correct when he evokes the "vicious global spiral" that tends to transform today's liberal democracies into societies...
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