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	'''"Third Way"''' means two things here: the Clinton-Blair neoliberal swamp (the enemy), and Haz live-cooking a third formulation of communism for normies (the method).		"'''"Third Way"''' means two things here: the Clinton-Blair neoliberal swamp (the enemy), and Haz live-cooking a third formulation of communism for normies (the method).

	== The swamp ==		== The swamp ==
	The 90s Third Way — welfare retrenched, deregulation embraced, war liberalized — is terminal social democracy: the left as management team for finance. ~~Its lineage runs~~ from Carter's deregulation through the DLC to today's Democrats.		The 90s Third Way — welfare retrenched, deregulation embraced, war liberalized — is terminal social democracy: the left as management team for finance. Lineage from Carter's deregulation through the DLC to today's Democrats.

	== The method ==		== The method ==

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	'''"Third Way"''' ~~carries~~ two ~~senses in Infrared discourse~~: the Clinton-Blair neoliberal ~~project~~ (the enemy), and Haz ~~Al-Din's~~ live-~~streamed search for~~ a ~~'''~~third formulation of communism for normies~~'''~~ (the method).		'''"Third Way"''' means two things here: the Clinton-Blair neoliberal swamp (the enemy), and Haz live-cooking a third formulation of communism for normies (the method).

	== The ~~enemy sense~~ ==		== The swamp ==
	The ~~1990s~~ Third Way ~~(Clinton, Blair, Schröder) — the accommodation of social democracy to finance globalization~~ — ~~is the terminal form of the left-liberal establishment Infrared opposes:~~ welfare retrenched, deregulation embraced, war liberalized. Its lineage runs from ~~[[Jimmy~~ Carter]]'s deregulation through the DLC to ~~the contemporary Democratic Party the ACP defines itself against~~.		The 90s Third Way — welfare retrenched, deregulation embraced, war liberalized — is terminal social democracy: the left as management team for finance. Its lineage runs from Carter's deregulation through the DLC to today's Democrats.

	== The method ~~sense~~ ==		== The method ==
	From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/0565a95f-b1d5-427e-bda3-70412ad7d294/ VIBE SHIFT stream], Haz working in real time ~~on messaging~~:		From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/0565a95f-b1d5-427e-bda3-70412ad7d294/ VIBE SHIFT stream], Haz working it out in real time:

	> "What would be a third way, third iteration? ~~So you~~ can watch me in real time cook up a good thing for normies ~~to just tell them~~... What do you tell people in one sentence or two sentences?"		> "What would be a third way, third iteration? You can watch me in real time cook up a good thing for normies... What do you tell people in one sentence or two sentences?"

	~~The method~~: communism ~~must be re-expressed~~ in the people's idiom, tested live against ordinary comprehension ~~— the opposite of~~ the ~~sect's jargon. The~~ [[Anglo Box]] ~~critique applies to socialist jargon too: definitions that don't communicate are formalism~~.		That's the whole craft: communism in the people's idiom, tested live against ordinary comprehension. Sect jargon that doesn't communicate is just the [[Anglo Box]] with a red flag on it ([[MAGA Communism]], [[Jimmy Carter]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~MAGA Communism]]~~		* [[Infrawoke]]
	* [[Jimmy Carter]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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	'''Third Way''' ~~refers to~~ the ~~late~~-~~20th-century political~~ project (~~Blair~~'s ~~New Labour, Clinton~~'~~s DLC, Schröder~~'~~s Neue Mitte, and in some periodizations Gorbachev~~'~~s "~~third ~~road"~~) ~~claiming a middle course between classical social democracy and neoliberalism — which in practice delivered neoliberalism with social-democratic vocabulary~~.		'''"Third Way"''' carries two senses in Infrared discourse: the Clinton-Blair neoliberal project (the enemy), and Haz Al-Din's live-streamed search for a '''third formulation of communism for normies''' (the method).

	== ~~Substance~~ ==		== The enemy sense ==
	* Acceptance of financialization, ~~deregulation~~, ~~and~~ globalization ~~as irreversible~~		The 1990s Third Way (Clinton, Blair, Schröder) — the accommodation of social democracy to finance globalization — is the terminal form of the left-liberal establishment Infrared opposes: welfare retrenched, deregulation embraced, war liberalized. Its lineage runs from [[Jimmy Carter]]'s deregulation through the DLC to the contemporary Democratic Party the ACP defines itself against.
	* Replacement of ~~class politics with identity-pluralism and meritocracy talk~~
	* Welfare retargeted toward "workfare"; privatizations under left ~~branding~~
	* Humanitarian-~~interventionist foreign policy (Kosovo~~, ~~Iraq-era complicity)~~

	== ~~Critique~~ ==		== The method sense ==
	~~For Marxists~~ the ~~Third Way was social democracy's final capitulation~~: ~~the moment the labor parties became explicitly the managers of neoliberalism~~. ~~Its wreckage — rust belts~~, ~~financial crises, collapsed trust — created the vacuum filled by right populism and by projects like [[MAGA Communism]] which claim a genuinely new synthesis rather than a centrist mush.~~		From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/0565a95f-b1d5-427e-bda3-70412ad7d294/ VIBE SHIFT stream], Haz working in real time on messaging:

	~~Note: distinguish from Gorbachev-era usage and from Chinese discourse on~~ "third ~~road~~" ~~liberalism~~.		> "What would be a third way, third iteration? So you can watch me in real time cook up a good thing for normies to just tell them... What do you tell people in one sentence or two sentences?"

			The method: communism must be re-expressed in the people's idiom, tested live against ordinary comprehension — the opposite of the sect's jargon. The [[Anglo Box]] critique applies to socialist jargon too: definitions that don't communicate are formalism.

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~Left-Conservatism~~]]		* [[MAGA Communism]]
	* [[~~Neo-Conservatism is Trotskyism~~]]		* [[Jimmy Carter]]

	== References ==		== References ==
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'''Third Way''' refers to the late-20th-century political project (Blair's New Labour, Clinton's DLC, Schröder's Neue Mitte, and in some periodizations Gorbachev's "third road") claiming a middle course between classical social democracy and neoliberalism — which in practice delivered neoliberalism with social-democratic vocabulary.

== Substance ==
* Acceptance of financialization, deregulation, and globalization as irreversible
* Replacement of class politics with identity-pluralism and meritocracy talk
* Welfare retargeted toward "workfare"; privatizations under left branding
* Humanitarian-interventionist foreign policy (Kosovo, Iraq-era complicity)

== Critique ==
For Marxists the Third Way was social democracy's final capitulation: the moment the labor parties became explicitly the managers of neoliberalism. Its wreckage — rust belts, financial crises, collapsed trust — created the vacuum filled by right populism and by projects like [[MAGA Communism]] which claim a genuinely new synthesis rather than a centrist mush.

Note: distinguish from Gorbachev-era usage and from Chinese discourse on "third road" liberalism.

== See also ==
* [[Left-Conservatism]]
* [[Neo-Conservatism is Trotskyism]]

== References ==
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