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Entry: The Real American Right: Part II Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_american_right_part_ii#13590 Post contents: 1. I have written before that the best political writing at the moment is coming out of the Mengerian School (the “Austrian” School). To read Rothbart, Lew Rockwell, Thomas Woods, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ron Paul, and above all Thomas DiLorenzo is invigorating. Invigorating also is Justin Raimondo. I thank him. Once again, this website obliges us Torys to define and distinguish ourselves from two groups who try to masquerade in the false whiskers of Toryism. (i) That we have little in common with Hamiltonians (“Neoconservatives”) I think we all agree. (ii) The intelligent among us know that we have nothing in common with racialism, Fascism, Clerical Fascism, and ethnic nationalism. (Sadly, Judeophobia is weak point among Torys, but one which Torys can correct.) We Tory Conservatives can learn much from the Mengerians, however much our own deep structure differs. They too utterly reject ## i and ii above, and also Judeophobia. Let’s call them friends, but friends from whom we also must differ. After reading Mises, I had the feeling he was just Bentham with the flavor of Linzertorte. (Nothing against Austria, mind you!). From my reading, I find Böhm-Bawerk their best thinker, who k.o.-ed Marx and Rodbertus. All the same, we Torys can work with the Mengerians, and also with Jeffersonians. Frank Meyer may end up with the status of a prophet. 2. The Hamiltonians make much hay of their supposed victory over Naziism and Communism and how the “Old Right” libertarians didn’t help out. Truth be told, Naziism was defeated by a Latter-Day Tory (Churchill), a Quasi-Maurrasian (De Gaulle), and by that fact that ol’ ‘Dolf was a bad general. Communism was defeated (1)by the fact that Socialism doesn’t work, and (2) by a Polish Personalist and Christian Democrat, Wojtyla by name. 3. “Right Wing Social Democrats” is an utter oxymoron. 4. Paul Gottfried, please chime in! Compare for us your latest book’s arguments to Rothbard’s! Sent at: 2008 05 16