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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (153760)12/9/2004 2:45:04 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Yes, it is an Irving Kristol quote.

A whole bloc of "neoconservatives" were Schachtmanites. He was a socialist who decided that intellectuals should follow the lead of the working class, and therefore of the unions. He was very anticommunist. The Schachtmanites became the dominant faction in the Socialist Party, and committed the Socialists to supporting Ronald Reagan in 1980. This lead to a split, and the foundation of the Democratic Socialists of America by Michael Harrington, a few years before he died.

Sidney Hook, who got labelled a neoconservative, considered himself a socialist and atheist all his life.

It is possible that George Orwell, who favored the West in the Cold War and cooperated with MI5, would have been labelled a neoconservative had he lived long enough.
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