Against Neoconservatism (It's the new Jacobinism, says Claes G. Ryn.)

Lew Rockwell.com ^ | 5 May 04 | Claes G. Ryn

[dangus]

You are a Jacobin, or is that just one of Cosmo Goldberg's lies?

[dinasour]

Can I send somebody to the guillotine.

Please, just one.

[cornelis]

Intersting post.

[DonaldDuke]

Can I send somebody to the guillotine.a

Have at it. I'm hoping to capture the guillotine market, but the word should be changed to something less French.

Paleo-chopper?

[goldstategop]

Good grief! America is not sending innocents to the guillotine. Anywhere. And if we have committed abuses, they are being corrected. We care more about life, liberty and justice than any nation before us in history. I would not care to have us compared to the French revolutionaries for whom revenge became a means of transforming the world. America has always sought to transform the world through the belief of liberty anchored in law.

[TopQuark]

Another article of a confused puppy, written as a stream of consciousness. Why are you interested in this? Why waste the bandwidth? If you are against "neocons" --- yes, all 15 of them --- at least post something that constitutes a thought rather than an outburst of emotion.

[Romulus]

Great article. Nobody cares.

[meenie]

America, Love it or leave it, for overseas duty.

[rod1]

Darn its JacoBIN.

Through half the article I though Bonnie Prince Charlie was coming back to rescue us.

Oh well, back to my haggis.

[cornelis]

"everywhere applicable" alert

Politics is obliged behave and sit one step lower than the "everywhere applicable." How on earth is it possible? Especially when one pious extreme has already crowned the State divine, and the other the Ego (so appealing in the sweet certitudes of reason or will).

[Just mythoughts]

Author should have stayed on topic, McDonalds.

[AAABEST]

I'm waiting for the usual imbeciles that come on these threads accusing everyone of anti-semitism being that neocon is a codeword for Jew.

[AAABEST]

According to them anyway.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Holy Illuminati, Batman !"

[mr.pink]

"This is the emerging American ruling class, which is made up increasingly of persons used to having the world cater to them. If others challenge their will, they throw a temper tantrum. Call this the imperialistic personality..."

I wish they only threw a "temper tantrum" as their all growed-up version results in real world cruelties and tarnishes our great country with it's vulgarity and mercilessness.

[quidnunc]

So now the paleoconservative line is neoconservatives = Jacobins?

I thought it was neoconservatives = trotskyites.

Make up your minds.

[Dumb_Ox]

Thanks for posting this. I tried to pick up Ryn's latest book at the library, but some professor or grad student had checked it out until July.

A few more essays by Professor Ryn:

Imaginative Origins of Modernity: Life as Daydream and Nightmare , touching upon the more delusionary aspects of modernity

The Ideology of American Empire(PDF Format)

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Through half the article I thought Bonnie Prince Charlie was coming back to rescue us. posted on 05/05/2004 10:25:48 AM PDT by rod1

He is. Tally ho!

nemo me impune lacessit

[Belisaurius]

The author is yet another Lew Rockwell moral relativist.

Boy, those neocons are starting to sound as powerful as the freemasons.

Already the Muslim world is seething with hostility ..Based on the laughable assertion alone, this article is pure bunk. Did the author just emerge from a time capsule buried in the 15th century? The Muslim world has been pretty much seething with hostility since the fall of Grenada.
9/11 did change everything. And some folks are willing to name evil for what it is. Meanwhile, some kook from Lewland wants us to travel back to our foreign policy of the 1970s. Or the 1930s.