Monday, August 18, 2008

Neoconservatism, Defined.

Posted by Snorghagen as part of a comment on S,N!:

One guy (former neo-con Michael Lind) described neoconservatism as “Marxism with entrepreneurs substituted for proletarians as the heroic subjects of history.”

Can't vouch for the attribution, but it's an interesting thought, nonetheless.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a good summation of Ayn Rand's philosophy as well. It's essentially inverted Marxism with wealthy 'producers' as the historically determinate class.

Rand was an embittered White Russian émigré with a boner for Herbert Spencer. It seems possible to reconstruct her entire line of reasoning from those facts alone.

John Evo said...

Corporate Welfare.

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