Editing Communitarianism (section)

== Criticism ==
Liberal theorists, such as Simon Caney,<ref>'Liberalism and communitarianism: a misconceived debate'. Political Studies 40, 273–290</ref> disagree that philosophical communitarianism has any interesting criticisms to make of liberalism. They reject the communitarian charges that liberalism neglects the value of community, and holds an "atomized" or asocial view of the self.

According to Peter Sutch the principal criticisms of communitarianism are:
# that communitarianism leads necessarily to [[moral relativism]];
# that this relativism leads necessarily to a re-endorsement of the status quo in international politics; and
# that such a position relies upon a discredited ontological argument that posits the foundational status of the community or state.<ref>Peter Sutch, ''Ethics, Justice, and International Relations'', p. 62</ref>

Other critics emphasize close relation of communitarianism to [[neoliberalism]] and new policies of dismantling the [[welfare state]] institutions through development of the third sector.<ref name="ReferenceA">Pawel Stefan Zaleski, ''Neoliberalizm i spoleczenstwo obywatelskie (Neoliberalism and Civil Society)'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Torun 2012.</ref>

=== Opposition ===
* [[Bruce Frohnen]] – author of ''The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism'' (1996)
* [[Charles Arthur Willard]] – author of ''Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy'', University of Chicago Press, 1996.