In any event, capitalism as defined by Marx simply has not been applicable to American conditions. Our free-enterprise economy is the exact opposite of a rigid class system. Describing the American way as capitalism perpetuates the hoax. On the other hand, we ought to use socialism and socialist where appropriate. And it is entirely appropriate to say that the Third Way is the new sheep s clothing for that old wolf.
Cats have nine lives, but the wolf in our midst has as many lives as it can invent disguises.
And its ability to dress up in the attire most suited to the place and time explains its continuing attraction, despite its history of failure upon failure. And Tony Blair Mr. Third Way himself has just given us a practical demonstration. By arresting Chile s General Augusto Pinochet, he has thrown overboard 783 years of British legal tradition, sole secular source of our liberties. But above all, the perpetual search for a third way confirms that, for the time-being, we have only two. Check your local library.