File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9708, message 13


From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-I: New Right
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:52:44 -0500 (CDT)


Michael,

	Some of Irving Kristol's columns in WSJ as he wrestles with this
contradiction are a sight to behold. It's hard not to imagine him holding
his nose with one hand while writing to please creationists with the
other. It is sometimes impossible to read them as anything else but pure
cynicism. He so wants both to be an idealized Edmund Burke while being
"politically effective" at the same time.

Carrol

You write:
<snip>	 
> I would distinguish between neoconservatism and the New Right while 
> acknowledging a lot of issue and policy congruency...and much of the 
> difference is located in their relationship to "mass" publics...the New 
> Right is activist in a way that neocons could never be comfortable with...
> 
<snip>


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