[lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists?

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Tue Jul 1 09:24:23 PDT 2003


Obviously both should be opposed, but the clear preference shown here for Ledeen & Co. over against the Buchananite conservatives probably has to do with the former's support for Israel as a militarized client of the US, as opposed to the latter's critique of that.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Chip Berlet wrote:


> Hi,
>
> See below
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood at panix.com]
> Sent: Mon 6/30/2003 6:37 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists?
>
> = = =
> Doug sez: The article said that Ledeen admires the model of Italian
> fascism, a rather interesting point. The guy has some influence in
> the admin and on the right. Why isn't this relevant and worrisome?
> = = =
>
> Hi,
>
> Not relevant because you are being taken for a ride that started with
> Telos and their flirtation with deBenoist years ago.
>
> First, the basic argument in the article is fallacious, as I said
> before, and anyone who cares to diagram it on paper will see that it
> fails the logic sniff test.
>
> The clue is in the subtitle:
>
> "Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than
> from the American Right"
>
> So the argument is that neoconservatism is more like fascism that the
> "American Right."
>
> ...



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