Radical centrism can be defined as the ideology behind Radical centrist politics, as compared to the political philosophies of Conservatism and Liberalism. As a new movement, the radical center doesn't yet have a coherent sense of community, so it is difficult to provide a formal statement of radical centrism. A few of the early contenders are:
The New America Foundation, the largest radical centrist think tank in the U.S., has proposed maximizing citizen choice as the foundational principle.
Mark Satin, editor of the Radical Middle Newsletter, proposes:
maximize choices for every American (and for the U.S. as a whole) as much as possible;
gaurantee a fair start in life to every American;
maximize every American's human potential as much as possible
be of genuine help to everyone in the developing world
Ernest Prabhakar of RadicalCentrism.org, takes a more philisophical and less U.S.-centric view, by calling for a commitment to the ideals of:
Reality, in terms of absolute truth, relative knowledge, and complex value
Character, in the importanc of conscious moral choices
Community, as people who create and exchange of value for and with each other
Humility, in recognizing we all want to think we are good, even when we're not
