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Entry: The Real American Right: Part III Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_american_right_part_iii#13691 Post contents: Rich Lowry has a column out titled "Liberal Fascism: A Conservative Slur No Longer." The column, ostensibly based on a book by that intellectual giant, Jonah Goldberg, makes the same point that Rothbard and the Old Right thinkers and leaders have been making for more than a half century now that fascists and Nazis were big enemies of the capitalist system and that "the fascist exaltation of youth, glorification of violence, hatred of tradition" are generally agendas of the left. Yet, having made these true (but banal) points, how does Lowry and presumably Goldberg not take the next logical step and critique the influence of neoconservatism on the right which seems to embrace all these things which he and Goldberg are condemning? The way I see it Lowry and Goldberg just want to turn the fascist label on their leftwing opponents, and they could care less about the implications of their argument. In essence, the argument is merely a scheme to score political points at the expense of the left, and it sums up well the mentality of today's establishment right. Sent at: 2008 07 20