I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of a neocon trotskyist. They want to promote capitalism throughout the world in order to ignite the revolution?
He was a Marxist, just not a Stalinist.
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Brainy Smurf was a depiction of Trotsky, back when the Smurfs were a pro-communist cartoon made to indoctrinate American children into the joys of Communism.
Basically, a bunch of Trostkyites moved over to the right in the '80s because they were pissed at Stalin. They put on a veneer of conservative thought (free market capitalism, limited government, etc.) but support all forms of state intervention in the market (subsidies, bailouts, corporate welfare), a large government (military-industrial complex, Patriot Act, Drug War, War on Terror), and the welfare state (Medicare, Social Security).
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Medicare and Social Security predate the '80s, so, what kind of sense does that make? Stalin was not even alive in the eighties. You are all messed up.
1. Republicans support Medicare/Social Security. Both programs met strong conservative oppositions (and rightly so). As Trotskyites are comfortable with a welfare state, they are comfortable with Medicare/Social Security.
2. Stalinism. Trotskyites disagreed with it and got pissed at the USSR.
You sound like a Republican. For shame.
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I can, and what it says there is that there's a conspiracy theory that it happened, not evidence. Just that three guys Michael Lind, Alan Wald and Bill King allege it at times.
Again, I feel like the logical inconsistencies in Neoconservative work and speech can be much better explained by them having absolutely no convictions and just being corrupt politicians (bought by corporations, still having to please enough people to get voted in).
And both of those were in force long before the 80s. What do the 80s have to do with any of that? Destalinization policies had already been enacted by the 1980s in the USSR. You can not even get your dates right and you are ironically telling me to "keep up".
These were all the marks of leftism. A large government imposing egalitarian policies onto the nation. Whereas conservatives rightfully saw a the federal government intruding into the matters that belonged in the hands of the individual states, the neoconservatives and liberals were perfectly content to quash dissent in favor of their "progressive" policies.
Kirkpatrick, a socialist, turned to the right as part of a campaign against communism. She served in the Reagan administration.
Strauss, a Jewish intellectual, critiqued the New Left as devoid of morality and substance (all true). His writings influenced neoconservatives like Kristol, and we can see these threads today as the neoconservatives wield unprecedented power. The concept of the "axis of evil" in which the Enemy is defined as irredeemably evil plays on this sort of moral reasoning. If the Enemy is evil, is it inherently good to destroy him or change him to goodness. Saddam Huissein, for instance, was an evil man; ergo, it was the moral obligation of a just nation to eliminate him from the world.
We can see this in the Republican party today. They are critical of the welfare state, but they are unwilling to meaningfully change the major welfare programs of Medicare and Social Security. In that, they support the tenants of leftism that brought about such disastrous programs.
You mean that a magazine devoted to liberal causes became a voice for anti-communism? LOL CONSPIRACY.
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excellent video.Theres ole slick willie clinton buddying around with his pal Bush and Obama chumming up with them like the buddies they all are.Love that piece of Bush lighting a flame to the constitution.Him,Obozo and slick willie,none of them believe in it.
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