Communitarian Network

The Communitarian Network, a "non-partisan, transnational, not-for-profit network of Communitarians," was formed in 1993 by Amitai Etzioni, who has served continuously as the Network's director. 

According to the Network's web site, "in the late 1980s, a growing number of academicians and social commentators began to notice a breakdown in the moral fabric of society. Attributing this condition to an excessive emphasis on individualism in the public sphere, they recognized the need for a social philosophy that at once protected individual rights and attended to corresponding responsibilities to the community. Transcending the stalemate between left and right, this new 'responsive communitarian' philosophy articulated a middle way between the politics of radical individualism and excessive statism.

"In 1990, a group of academicians and social thinkers came together to formulate the core ideas they shared, spelled out in the Responsive Communitarian Platform, and to spur the movement toward a recasting of the social and moral foundations of society. A quarterly journal, The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, was founded in 1991 to provide a forum for the development and exploration of Communitarian ideas." 

Contact
2130 H Street, NW, Suite 703 Washington, DC 20052 Phone: (202) 994-6118 Email: comnet AT gwu.edu Web: http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps

SourceWatch Resources

 * Communitarianism
 * Compassionate Conservatism