. . . was a nest of young, self-“educated” Jewish communists at City College of New York in the 1930s according to the self-proclaimed “godfather” of neoconservatism, the late Irving Kristol. As outspoken communists they were of course welcomed with open arms in academe and many of them were given prestigious-sounding job titles at big universities, as Kristol boasts.
By contrast the great Ludwig von Mises, who arrived in New York City in 1940, could not find any university in America to hire him. At the time Mises was the preeminent critic of socialism in the world; the most severe and effective European critic of the Nazi regime; and he was the son of a Rabbi. As such, he was Enemy Number One with the Nazis as far as intellectuals were concerned, so he fled his apartment just hours before the SS broke into it. He taught for more than 30 years at New York University on a salary paid for by freedom-loving philanthropists. Kristol and his fellow Trotskyites (the “godfather” preferred “Trotskyists”) were intellectual pygmies (and cowards) compared to Mises.
The above originally appeared at LewRockwell.com.Also:
What’s the Use in Having Elections . . .
...if the “prize” is small government? So asked the neocon “godfather” Irving Kristol in explaining neoconology some forty years ago. As will the other neocon “godfather,” William F. Buckley, Jr., Kristol advocated unlimited government (as long as it is run by neocons or neocon puppets); endless wars for “democracy”; Gestapo-style spying on the America population; censorship of opposing viewpoints; a gigantic police state; and a monstrous military/industrial complex. For starters. Thanks to Monica Perez for bringing this to my attention.
There was an hour long video made a few years ago documenting the rise of Neoconservatism and Radical Islam its amazing how they paralleled each other. I believe it was called The Power of Nightmares
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