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Entry: Who (or What) is James Kirchick? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/who_the_fck_is_james_kirchick#2043 Post contents: Auburn War Eagle... While I don't necessary agree with you, I respect your writing. As a neoconservative once told me, "Raimondo writes as if his hair is on fire". So, in the great scheme of things, that's probably a compliment. Of couse, I ask...Hair on fire. Fire in the mind. What's the difference? But will you please answer the following. In you introduction to Rothbard's "Wall St., Banks and Foreign Policy" you write, among other things: "Rothbard eagerly reclaimed the concept of class analysis from the Marxists...One of Rothbard's many great contributions to the cause of Liberty was to restore the original theory, which pitted the people against the State. In the Rothbardian theory of class struggle..." Are you not endorsing the idea of a Marxist class struggle but one simply pitted against the State? If so, then doesn't a Marxist dialectic endorse determinism and, in fact, preclude the notion of individual human action as described by Ludwig Von Mises? Doesn't such preclude the idea of a sacred duty that may have arisen with the concept of public service? Correct me if I am wrong but it seems that you are inferring a perpetual war against the State until there is no State. In other words, the idea of a limited government, as framed by our Founding Fathers, is not possible if Rothbard's theory of perpetual class war against the State is taken to it's logical fulfillment. Why is that no different than the "fire in the mind" of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed? Honestly...is a Rothbardian merely a bizarro Marxist? That said, I think now is the time for you because indeed our government, especially in foreign policy, has taken an imperial turn. So your contributions are needed and entertaining to read. Sid Sent at: 2008 11 23