[lbo-talk] Bob Bork worries about moral chaos

[Michael Pugliese]

On 7/5/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Wall Street Journal - July 5, 2005
> 
> Their Will Be Done
> By ROBERT H. BORK
>...That teaching is the desirability, as the sociologist
Robert Nisbet put it, of the "break-up of social molecules into
atoms, of a generalized nihilism toward society and culture as the
result of individualistic hedonism and the fragmenting effect of both
state and economy." 

      Several accts. I have read on New Left intellectual currents say
the same thing.

 Robert Nisbet: Conservative Sociologist
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north120.html
by Gary North

   In 1962, Oxford University Press re-titled his then out-of-print
book, The Quest for Community. It was titled Community and Power and
released as a paperback. Two years later, the counter-culture began to
be felt in American life...But the counter-culture cloaked its agenda
in the language of the need for a new community. Nisbet's book was
perfectly positioned. As he said in an interview

 ( http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ecf27/pubs/nisbet60.html ) three decades
later, the book took on a cult status in the New Left.

-- 
Michael Pugliese