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To: tradermike_1999 who started this subject3/8/2003 3:09:07 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net   of 74559
 
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The gang: The influence of Straussians on the US politics

It is one of those ironies of history. The most violent opponents of the German anti-war course in America are followers of a German-Jewish philosopher, a refugee from the old Europe. The New York Times called him the "Godfather" of the "Contract with America", which the republican party signed in 1994. For Time he is "one of the most influential men in the American policy", for New Republic his disciples "one of the top ten gangs in the political and academic world of the Millennium".

His story sounds unbelievable. Leo Strauss (1899-1973), a Jewish scholar from the environment of Franz Rosenzweig, earned his PhD under Ernst Cassirer, fell later under Heidegger's spell, was promoted by Carl Schmitt, emigrated in 1938 to USA, taught there for almost twenty years political philosophy at the University OF Chicago and built up a following, which still shapes the Bush government. The politics departments in the USA have for a long time been infiltrated and in many places controlled by the Straussians. Whole generations of politicians did their learning time under them.

Most neoconservatives are pupils or grandchild pupils of Leo Strauss. Some studied under prominent Straussians such as Harvey Mansfield or Allan Bloom. Bloom's "The Closing OF the American Mind", a popular version of the Strauss' teachings, was a best-seller in 1987 and the favorite reading of the neoconservative wave under Ronald Reagan. Saul Bellow set a monument for his friend Bloom with the novel "Ravelstein".

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