[lbo-talk] contemporary neocons (was The weird men behind Bush's war)

[Michael Pugliese]

> Is this true of Wolfowitz, Perle, Rummy and this
> gang?  Did they have
> anything to do with the old Partisan Review crowd?
> 
> -- Shane

   A major nuclear war gamer/theorist, A. Wohlstetter,
was a Trotskyist in the thirties, as was scary mofo,
James Burnham, who did write for Partisan Review. (See
for example, his piece, "Lenin's Heir, " from around
1940.)

   Social Democrats, USA, in the early to mid-70's
would have talks by such as Walter Laqueur and Richard
Perle. (Perle was a staffer for Scoop Jackson.)

   Look up a South End Press book by Jerry Sanders on
the Committee for the Free Worldthat Rummy was in
along with Partisan Review ex-Trot, James T. Farrell.
Alan Wald wrote a book on Farrell, well worth a look.

  Also, see a symposium in Commentary on, "Liberal 
Anti-Comunism Revisted."