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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2133)	9/14/1999 8:17:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

It so happens that I have read one and not the other, I am not sure the reason...."1984", although not conservative, was a great warning about the nature of totalitarianism...Certainly, "I'll Take My Stand" was at least as influential as "Coming of Age in Samoa"...Hegel was essentially conservative, lauding the Reichstat, the constitutional monarchy emerging in Prussia, as the best regime. Nietzsche was conservative, if you take conservative to mean anti- socialist, anti- egalitarian, and pro- hierarchical, although he was a mixed bag. "The Wealth of Nations" is perhaps the most influential text on economics ever penned. Heidegger was positively reactionary, and fell into the Nazi trap, although he was eventually disenchanted. George Santayana was pretty conservative, and Leo Strauss. Milton Friedman has likely been the most influential economist since Keynes....