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To: Neocon who wrote (86009)	8/22/2000 1:38:52 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Can't agree with you entirely on this, Neo. I would modify your statement as follows: They [the neoconservatives] were the bulk of those liberals who made a point of stressing their anti-Communism active in policy circles, including government and journalism. By the late '50's, many liberals in policy circles did not feel it necessary to stress their anti-Communism. McCarthyism had subsided; domestically, Communism had no appeal and virtually no social base; on the international front, the Cold War was well under way, and there was no obvious need to beat the drums still more. There was something of a revival of revolutionary Marxism, Maoism, Castroism, you name it, in the '60's, but it was a media-conscious intellectual fad, again with no social base of any consequence, limited for the most part to university campuses. I was at Columbia during the student strike -- a joke. Not worth getting excited about, IMO. And who "drove the anti-Communist liberals out of the liberal camp"? Podhoretz's egomaniacal ex-friends? Norman Mailer et al? Again, a little self-important clique.