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Entry: The Real American Right: Part I Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_american_right_part_i#13477 Post contents: Looks like an awfully selective history of the American Right. I wonder, were there ever any conservatives in the South? If so, did they ever say anything a teensy bit critical about capitalism and bourgeois Yankee commercialism and industrialism? I also wonder, did any antebellum conservatives ever defend slavery in *principle* against the "free-labor system", a.k.a. capitalism? If so, then why no mention of an anti-capitalist Old Right here? Maybe Rothbard was trying to grab legitimacy for his *own* tradition--what's called here "the" Old Right -- by erasing rival Old Right or conservative traditions from American history. It's an old story. Sent at: 2008 05 16