Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (6883)	12/14/2005 10:12:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542152

I have read that he only professed to admire Trotsky's tactic of continual revolution - embrace change to keep your opponents off their game. The actual form of government which is used to achieve a Straussian goal is irrelevant, and is tailored to the circumstances. You would need a link for that argument. Your assertion of his early right wing stuff made me curious so I've been doing a bit of googling. There is no one good article that I could find that gives his political career. But I gather the following: 1. If you read my link, you can see he was still, when he gave that talk, quite clear that he had been a Trotskyist (as opposed to a Trotskyite, strikes me as a distinction without a difference). He was part of the Max Schactman socialist group as an undergrad at CCNY. And he was buddies with Daniel Bell, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Nathan Glazer at the time. 2. Some argue that he changed in the 70s when he decided there was simply no place for his foreign policy views in the Dem party. That's about the time several staff members from Jackson's senate office made the same decision. This latter makes the most sense to me. 3. There is something about his being a part of a secret CIA funding of some liberal journals in the 50s. Since that was not unusual and was certainly not a recognition of "rightness" at the time, I'm still going to stick with the middle 70s as the transition point. Unless you can point me to something different.