The imperial delusion
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
09/16/05
A lot has been written about the neoconservatives: their storied history starting out as acolytes of Leon Trotsky conferring in Alcove One in the lunchroom at City College in New York City; their rise to literary fame as the so-called 'New York Intellectuals;' their odyssey from the left-liberal Bohemian beret-wearing coffeehouse set to the wood-paneled boardrooms and lecture halls of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute -- and the topic is a fascinating one. But I just want to focus here, for a moment, on Hersh's description of them as a cult. Now, one of the chief characteristics of a classic cult organization is that there are two sets of ideas that hold the cultists in thrall, two entirely separate and often contradictory ideologies that are held simultaneously by members of the group...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7294
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Justin Raimondo
09/16/05
A lot has been written about the neoconservatives: their storied history starting out as acolytes of Leon Trotsky conferring in Alcove One in the lunchroom at City College in New York City; their rise to literary fame as the so-called 'New York Intellectuals;' their odyssey from the left-liberal Bohemian beret-wearing coffeehouse set to the wood-paneled boardrooms and lecture halls of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute -- and the topic is a fascinating one. But I just want to focus here, for a moment, on Hersh's description of them as a cult. Now, one of the chief characteristics of a classic cult organization is that there are two sets of ideas that hold the cultists in thrall, two entirely separate and often contradictory ideologies that are held simultaneously by members of the group...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7294
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 16. Sep, 10:52
