Re: POLITICS: Neo-Conservative policies and power

From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 08:45:51 MDT

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    Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com> said:

    > dehede011@aol.com wrote:
    > > I read the article Samantha recommended. I found the following
    > > particularly interesting as I had never heard the term neo-con except on
    this
    > > list and by those of so-called liberal persuasion.
    >
    > The term 'neocon' shows up in lewrockwell.com articles almost every
    > single day, and has for months. So, I gather you have not read any of
    > their articles opposed to the war. BTW lewrockwell is a libertarian
    > site. Neocons have been portrayed as basically communists, specifically
    > trotskyists, with their penchant for reshaping the world through war.
    >

    THat is just the latest, most visible trait. Neocons are really about
    corporation-oriented (as opposed to individual, citizen-oriented) free-
    marketeering, which is in some ways "socialism for the corporations," as
    opposed to "socialism for the individual."

    In the Neocon world, the constitution is really written for the
    business "person" (i.e., corporations (artificial persons) AND human beings),
    instead of the "natural person", i.e., the "human beings"/ citizens.

    I guess the putative rationale is that this economic philosophy is the most
    efficient....or something.

    Neocon use of the military is primarily for business stability purposes.



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