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Where can a consensus, which is not tantamount to majority rule, come from? Alternatively, if it is to be a minority voice that is heard, the danger could be that those most articulate would be best placed to determine the values and morals of future society. This, arguably, would fit Etzioni’s tripartite model perfectly. In his eyes, it would be an informed exercise of normative power from above. What is more, Etzioni’s use of this analytical triangle is in itself a serious – if not a dangerous – limit to the scope and breadth of any proposed solutions to the perceived moral decay.
As a result, investigation centres around the need to discover the point at which excessively coercive means can be effectively countered by utilitarian and/or normative means, and the point at which extreme utilitarian means may be countered by normative means alone. Therefore, the search for an ‘acceptable’ equilibrium remains confined within the scope of the three power variants. Unfortunately, this is not a true representation of social reality. Consequently, Etzioni’s resultant call for the regeneration of a moral voice to help restore and strengthen his favoured variant of normative power does not offer a: satisfactory answer to the disintegration of social bonds in advanced societies, for [his] failure to defend the autonomy 45 Not so New Labour of individuals produces morality without value, a onedimensional world in which communities are blessed with a cohesion that is neither chosen, intended, nor lived by the people who produce them.
For him, they are two countries that have already managed to embrace the communitarian ethic. They have demonstrated to all and sundry that it is possible to “combine regional identities with society-wide loyalties” (Etzioni, 1995b, p 9). They are Etzioni’s proof that new communitarianism is not simply a utopian dream. Methodological constraints and myopic solutions Etzioni’s brand of communitarianism, despite all of Etzioni’s protestations to the contrary, is a highly conservative blueprint for future social relations.
