(October 17, 2010 at 6:29 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: So what is 'the American Right' in your view?What's called the American right (Neo-Cons, for example) are actually variations on Progressives, and a mixture of Trotskyites and Ludstonites who left the Communist party. Bill Buckley and the NeoCons with their ideological world wars to spread Democracy and Freedom, with interventionist policies to support a state-directed industry and the willingness (in Buckley's own words) to tolerate a 'totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores' to fight anti-democratic enemies abroad. Oh, and let's not forget how they call all of their opponents 'fascists'. That's straight of WW2 Progressivism Marxism and Social Democracy. With shades of straight up Communism, if not so much in economic nationalization anymore then moreso in ideological control and thought-policing. And, for that matter, they're not too opposed to economic meddling.
WW2 pretty much killed the American right, for a variety of reasons. The actual American right would be people like Frank Chodorov, Albert Jay Nock, H.L. Mencken, Charles Lindbergh. There are still people like this; but the media, academia, universities, all bureaucracies and political branches as well as both parties and the various 'activist' groups are almost entirely Progressive Social Democrats. In fact, if anything, Republicans are even more PC-obsessed with democrats on many issues. Look at the witch hunts for 'anti-semites' they go on periodically, using it as an excuse to purge any actually right-wing people from their ranks.
"Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity." - Ray Brassier
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