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Echoes and Intersections I 205<br />

Simply, is it bad or good by the standards in question?<br />

That's all we need to know, as there are bad and good<br />

elements in both the modern and the traditional.<br />

If there can be reactionary modernism-a description<br />

attributed to fascism in certain contexts-perhaps conceptually,<br />

there could also be a progressive antimodernism, or<br />

a critical alternative modernity restoring submerged or excluded<br />

principles whose submersion or exclusion contributed<br />

to the destructive imbalances we have experienced.72 In<br />

effect, what each of these political thinkers tried to do was<br />

to draw on the cultural resources they had as a source of<br />

emancipatory alternatives to the destructive forms of modernity<br />

they knew. The village republic had never existed as<br />

they imagined it. The key thing is that they did imagine it.<br />

They wanted to create it anew.

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