There is no “middle ground” as such. There is only the possibility of regression or what Alexander Solzhenitsyn called an “anthropological leap.”
See: A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978.

He says that, “Christian and Orthodox theology… must forcefully assert that the existence of liberal institutions in economic, political, and social life and in international relations is reasonable and morally justified only on the condition that the neoliberal vision of man and society is not imposed along with them.”

How can we truly separate the liberal economic, political, and social institutions from the neoliberal vision of man and society? It is the economic, political and social institutions that largely constitute and determine the society that we will see and thus envision.

Also, the liberal view of man underlies all of these institutions. Behind all of them lies the Enlightenment notion of progress – that these institutions inaugurate a better world that more wholly accomodates itself to the nature of man as a rationally self-interested and self-expressing individual. This myth of progress is antithetical to an emphasis on Holy Tradition as the norm of life.

What middle ground can there be between the myth of progress and an emphasis on adherence to Holy Tradition? How is it possible to separate and affirm liberal institutions while rejecting the anthropology that underlies them?

At the foundation of this model of life are the ideas of neoliberalism, which combine pagan anthropocentrism, established in European culture at the time of the Renaissance, with features of Protestant theology and elements of philosophical thought of Jewish origin.

Am I the only one that finds the end of the sentence a little unnerving?

It’s one thing to say that certain writers, who happened to be Jewish, wrote some things that were used to bolster “neoliberalism.” It’s another thing to say that neoliberalism, here vilified, is – in part – Jewish. It seems to me that, phrased as the MP does, this could possibly lead to trouble in Orthodox-Jewish relations.

The West is trying to bring over the former communist countries the “neoliberal civilization”. Who are the people making the rules in Europe today? They are denying over and over again the Christian origin of European culture. Their mission seems to be to prevent people from returning to God. No force is being used, just the power of mass media, the overwhelming power of publicity,and so on.