The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

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• Even some of the former Communists who gave the conservative movement its crusading fervor seemed at first little interested in America as America. Instead, they tended to perceive the United States as a world power, the only logical leader of the worldwide struggle against messianic Communism. (查看原文)

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• Why equate conservatism with Burke? How useful was it to assert that because America lacked a feudal social structure, it was therefore not “conservative"? Who had demonstrated that conservatism was solely the ideology of a feudal, hierarchical society? Who had proved that it should be equated only with “medieval” nstitutions? If America was distinctive, perhaps its conservatism (if any) was also distinctive. To say that the American experience was fundamentally non-Burkean did not establish that it was liberal, only that it was non-Burkean. But had even that claim really been proven? What did Burke stand for? How many Burkes were there? Was Burkean conservatism primarily a defense of a particular eighteenth-century status quo, now long dead, or was it the exposition of a body of timeless... (查看原文)

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