Value Polarization:Exogenous and Endogenous Aspects of Contemporary European and American Identity Politics
Value polarization is an important perspective to analyze the internal relationship between democracy and identity politics in Europe and the United States.It not only presents the important characteristics of contemporary identity politics in Europe and the United States,but also reveals the order fission of contemporary democratic values in Europe and the United States.Equality's subordination to freedom is the essence of the polarization of the value of identity politics.The breaking of the limit of the value of political freedom and the crossing of the value of social equality is the core of the fission of democratic value in Europe and America.As far as the value polarization of identity politics is concerned,the social tearing caused by economic inequality and cultural anxiety caused by globalization,post-modem value change and political transformation,national polarization and political decline,etc.,is the external mechanism.The paradoxes of liberal rights,the construction of romantic rights and the mobilization of radical rights are the internal causes of democracy.The value polarization of identity politics has triggered a profound crisis of liberal democracy.The value polarization of identity politics is a warning to any country.To deal with the order turbulence caused by the value change,it is necessary to promote both social construction and national capacity.
value polarizationidentity politicspolitical freedomconflict of rightsliberal democracy