[lbo-talk] The Conservative Mind

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 3 12:00:03 PDT 2011


On Oct 3, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote:


> Conservative thought is always parasitic and mimetic, always reacting to left movements which are always original and liberatory? A rather rigid and self-regarding dualism, wouldn't you say? And one that is not convincing to me especially when Robin himself cites Edmund Burke as both the father of the conservative movement and a foundational theorist of Romanticism. Burke can lead to Hayek and the Hegelian Dialetic. The lineage of left and right political thought and action are a lot more promiscuous and messy than this argument appears to acknowledge.

What are you basing this on? My half-sentence summary? My interview with Corey? Reading the book?

Doug



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