By Jolyon Agar
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According to the Confucian tradition, society should be an enlarged life-time school. True to his belief in universal education, Confucius would not turn away whosoever came to him to be educated (you jiao wu lei). The properly educated elite should be endowed with a sense of mission so that one does not think of advancing just oneself, but aims at advancing the collective self (ji yu li er li ren). 24 Thus, it would be futile trying to square the Western notion of the man-unto-himself with the Confucian notion of man-in-society.
This grouping is now in the process of gradually morphing into a more comprehensive group to include not only Russia, but also China, India, Brazil and South Africa, countries which all have reservations about neo-liberal economics and would be unlikely to acquiesce in an ideology which precludes governments from intervening in economic processes. Indeed, the deepening recession that began in 2008 has put government intervention in the economy at the top of the agenda everywhere, including in the United States.
Israel remains the most intractable case of all. The United States has consistently supported Israel in the multifarious conflicts of the Middle East. This seemingly unconditional commitment has been a severe constraint on American foreign policy. The Israeli onslaught on the population of Gaza just prior to the inauguration of the new American administration pre-emptively tested the unconditionality of American support for Israel. Israel could prove to be the hard case that blocks the way towards American acceptance of a plural world in our time.