'Trotskyist' does not appear the predominant categorisation here, michael ... nor used all that negatively, in comparison with other -isms, just in pretty factual manner - the left did have its schisms [only -ism that crosses all the rest, is 'schism', quite useful really, well to splitters not lumpers, but then lumperism has been so discredited has it not] [but i digress] .... fact of life, place Wolfowitz back in 1933 and he may well have been a trotskista -
' Most neoconservative defence intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right. They are products of the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti-communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history. Their admiration for the Israeli Likud party's tactics, including preventive warfare such as Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, is mixed with odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for 'democracy'. They call their revolutionary ideology 'Wilsonianism' (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism. Genuine American Wilsonians believe in self-determination for people such as the Palestinians. '
newamerica.net
Couple of reviews with extensive comment John, very interesting, thanks - amazon.com |
