[…] of Strauss’s echt ideas still seem pretty wild to me. One is his theory of the ‘Last Men’, indebted to Nietzsche. These are the products of modern liberal civilisation, who have been softened, weakened and ‘feminised’ by comfort and democracy. The solution, thought Strauss, was a good bracing war or two. Apart from this, […]
[…] Balkans to the northern Asian sub-continent basin. So the very same Gladstone administration that Newton indicts for hypocrisy, in fact initially resisted for almost two years Bradford Liberal MP, former education minister William Forster who wanted ‘gunboats’ and outright ‘annexation’ of Egypt. Radical leader John Bright was openly allowed to critique the whole bloody […]
[…] understandably played down by the libertarians who are only too aware that their own anti-statist line is not as consistent as it might be. Although their classical liberal, individualist ideology is applied rigorously in the field of social and industrial policy — and also in respect of European unity — it is suppressed when […]
[…] ideologies lies in the attempt to conjoin certain currents of nationalist and socialist thought, specifically a radical romantic, populist and authoritarian variety of nationalism, with virulent anti- liberal and anti-bourgeois sentiments, and a revolutionary, voluntarist, elitist, and mythopoetic variety of socialism with strong anti-rationalist and anti-materialist (ie anti-Marxist) tendencies. The complex causes of the […]
[…] unconventional — is best exemplified by the amount of support he has garnered from mainstream church spokesmen in the wake of his prosecution for tax fraud. Even liberal and left-leaning ministers, as well as certain American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) officials, have adopted his view that his incarceration for illegal financial activities was a […]
[…] media, including our own dear Guardian, whose American reportage is in a class of its own when it comes to stumblefootedness and unthinking fealty to the neo- liberal line. Does it seem strange that I refer to neo-liberalism in the context of the King and Kennedy assassinations? I hope not. Assassination – normally of […]
[…] more perfect a market, the less influence any single producer or consumer has within that market. The same rule applies to distribution within a market. If neo- liberal theories are correct, we are approaching ever closer to this state of economic bliss, followed inevitably by a parallel state of political bliss. Given the contemporary […]
[…] sects that promised to draw popular attention away from radical activism towards moral and reli-ious fervour. Elite groups prefer evangelical and Pentecostal religion to Catholic liberation theology, liberal Protestantism, and secular socialism. The relationship today between business and religion in the United States recalls the politics of the decades between the Civil War and […]
[…] secondary industries fell by 957,000. (6) All this made for a large constituency, based at the popular and the political level on a fusion between the pre-1914 Liberal and Conservative parties, in favour of a liberal, anti-inflationary and anti-labour economic policy, which the Establishment used to construct a hegemonic bloc which dominated British politics […]
[…] we have to wait until now for a detailed account. It is also disappointing that after so long – the bulk of the SDP merged with the Liberal Party in 1987 – its history should be written by two academics who helped found it in the first place. Not that Ivor Crewe and Anthony […]
