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To: Irontank

I think this writer is on crack. Marxism is an economic theory and the neocon movement is a belief that we should act preemptively in the world.


16 posted on 05/25/2007 10:25:20 AM PDT by byteback
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To: byteback
Marxism is an economic theory and the neocon movement is a belief that we should act preemptively in the world.

"Neo-conservatism" is more complex than that. It is rooted in a philosophy of big-government globalism that has no basis in U.S. Constitutional law. This is why, for example, you never hear neo-conservatives in the media supporting strict constructionism as a constitutional philosophy, and why most neo-cons have no problem with blatant violations of constitutional law (like gun control).

I don't know if that makes them "Marxists," but it sure as hell doesn't make them "conservative" in any sense, either.

24 posted on 05/25/2007 10:35:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: byteback

“neocon movement is a belief that we should act preemptively in the world”

Well said.
And I’m much more of a ‘Taft’ or Paleocon; but I think that’s the best one sentence definition I’ve seen.


27 posted on 05/25/2007 10:38:14 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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To: byteback

And proponents of both views are authoritarian statists of the worst stripe, fit only to be fishfood.


96 posted on 05/25/2007 7:06:27 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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