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An American Writer & Essayist's avatar

Very good article, but you’re missing one important figure in the Neoconservative sphere. Dr. Fritz G.A. Kraemer. He was never a man of the left, his politics were of old Prussia and he believed in the superiority of the West and Democracy and disliked Diplomacy without force to back it up. The book: “The Forty Years War The Rise and Fall of the Neocons” is a great book and one of the few that features him because he preferred to advise and remain in the background instead of taking front and center stage.

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Henry Solospiritus's avatar

The delightful unpredictability of the Trumpster has these fools tripping all over themselves as they hunt for power and influence. Bari and Matt et al are crystalline forms highly charged by friction but devoid of psychic connection to the expansion of the Cosmos. In other words, they are all about their own glory and care little for the advance of the Divine Hierarchy!

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Daniel's avatar

The original neoconservatives never considered themselves conservative. They made pains to clarify their ideology as essentially (classically) liberal but the left wouldn't accept it, so they were stuck with the (neo) conservative monicker, much to the trational conservatives' chagrin. In any event, the opinions of neocons with regard to the administrative state vary, with some being for reform and others, dismantlement.

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Alan's avatar

You are clearly out of touch or haven't done even the most basic research for your so called drivel you just wrote here

James lindsay is not Referring to anything israel related in his Woke Right definition

THE DEFINITION OF WOKE RIGHT IS NATIONAL SOCIALISM

WHITE NATIONALISM which is a growing underbelly in the conservative circle

it's literally the first thing you see in the page when YOU SEARCH IT UP

https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1909414294414037482

https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1884249651651698934

https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1918395581719851027

You and YOUR whole pathetic institute CANNOT do most basic research I am mind boggled by this fact

You WROTE SO much but you didn't even bother to look up why or what Lindsay was talking about

Your institution and your kind will always remain a worthless joke

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Jim Croft's avatar

From what i have read this all started with jewish radicals in late 1880's in what is now central Ukraine.

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JBS's avatar

Neocons are appalling as a class. But the wounded and maimed vets of Afghanistan and Iraq have military-age kids now, so time’s a wasting on kicking off the next war.

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Chad Cassady's avatar

I hope you find peace.

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Aristides's avatar

Can you suggest some articles on why it benefits the Right to dismantle the managerial class? I’ve grown up on the Right all my life, but for the 20 years I’ve been politically aware, the Right has been about conserving the managerial class. Certainly, Bush, McCain, and Romney were conservatives without seeking to dismantle the managerial class.

I completely understand dismantling the bureaucracy, but getting rid of the rest of the managers, feels fundamentally anti conservative, it feels like something the left would get rid of in the name of egalitarianism. Trump himself managed a large real estate and media empire and seems uninterested in fighting the managerial class outside the bureaucracy and academia. Or are those the main portion of the managerial class you want to get rid of?

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David Brady's avatar

I suggest Ludwig von Mises’ rather short book “Bureaucracy”

He explains the mechanics of the managerial revolution through bureaucracy. Not all managers have to go, but the bureaucratic class must.

I also have an article or two explaining his theory:

https://mises.org/mises-wire/tale-two-bureaucracies

https://mises.org/mises-wire/revisiting-james-burnham

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