04/11/05

Today communism has collapsed, but another universalist ideology, the new Jacobinism, has taken its place. A difference between the French and the new Jacobinism is that the latter has chosen not France but America as mankind's savior. In a large number of speeches and statements since 9/11, the president has made clear that he considers armed world hegemony necessary to America's mission. At the inauguration, the massive security -- involving some 30,000 secret service agents, police, and military personnel -- and other telltale symbolism signaled the invincibility and willpower of the United States. Here was installed an American emperor, but one far more powerful and far more ambitious than any Roman counterpart. Neo-Jacobin ideology can be seen as the perfect justification for American imperial power...

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_04_11/article2.html

from The American Conservative, by Claes G. Ryn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp