[lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists?

[C. G. Estabrook]

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."
> 
> ...