Ayn wept

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > Carl Remick quoted Joe Conason:
> >
> > > Maybe someday we’ll see a revival of the
> > >kind of conservatism that once valued social solidarity along with
> > >enterprise, and demanded responsibility as the price of privilege.
> >
>
>Carl, I'm not sure what "conservatism" you are speaking of. Since most
>of the poets and novelists I studied over the years were conservatives,
>I'm fairly well acquainted with several conservative traditions. May I
>say that all of them I know of were red in tooth and claw. They were
>most responsible for (a) maintaining order and (b) making those over
>whom they maintained order at least claim they loved it.

Please!  The view I quoted there was Joe Conason's, not mine.  I do agree 
with Conason, though, that Greenspan's speech the other day probably left 
Ayn Rand whirling in her grave like a turbine.

Carl

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