I got the Machiavellians on my Kindle. Haven't read it yet, so I can't speak on Burnham's ideas.Smitty-48 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:07 amWell I am a big James Burnham fan and he is the prime example.heydaralon wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:59 pmIn the same way that a bunch of Trotskites migrated to the right and formed the neocons, I'll bet a lot of these nasty progressive shitbag professors will also jump ship too. Once a few of them start doing it, it may become a fad and the pitiful groupthink they cannot escape will cause even more defections and make the new status quo more conservative. However, as we have seen with neo cons, often the magic thinking and big govt garbage warps the fundamental character of the party. So short answer idk either. Academics like to view their theories as timeless, but in reality they are every bit as frivolous and changing as clothing fashions.
I don't think Neocon is used correctly anymore, Neocon now refers to the Bushies, but they weren't Neocons.
The Bushies actually rejected the Neocon model, Cheney went off on his own tangent.
Powell was a Neocon, but he was sidelined by this new thing, Cheneyism, which is unprecedented really.
9/11 was such a shock that it created a whole new paradigm.
Looks good though.
How much of Neo Con thinking affected Obama's agenda especially in the realm of foreign policy? Do you feel that a lot of it carried over?