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Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6557 Post contents: Adriana is quite correct that marriages of convenience are bad ones. Pius X and his successors had good reasons to “divorce” or “annul” the “marriage” of Legitimists, Assumptionists, and other conservative Catholics on one side, and Maurras on the other. Charles Péguy, despite his socialism, would have been the better man to follow. Maritain, an early Maurras follower, left Maurras by the early 1920s and wrote a book about it <i>Une opinion sur Charles Maurras et le devoir des catholiques</i>, (1926), which made it into his </i>Integral Humanism</i> . I have waited until this evening to go the next step: This consideration of “marriage” prompts the question for Christians who follow Catholic Social Teaching (including Christian Democrats), With whom do such Christians work (in rapprochement or coalition)?: 1) Racial-Nationalists? [most certainly not] 2) Fascists (in Mussolini’s sense, and thus becoming “Clerical Fascists”)? [most certainly not] 3) Classic Marxists? [most certainly not] 4) Cultural Marxists? [most certainly not] 5) Nationalists? [probably not] 6) Bonapartists and Junta-ists? [probably not] 7) Little Miss Ayn-ists? [probably not] 8) Socialists (of the class struggle type)? [probably not] 9) Whigs of the Michael Novak and John Neuhaus type? 10) Social Democrats? 11) Greens (at least those free of materialist, pantheist, and neopagan tendencies)? 12) Liberal Democrats (in the European sense) and libertarians? 13) other confessional parties? 14) Continental conservatives? 15) Burken-Kirkan-Scrutonian conservatives? 16) none of the above? Sent at: 2008 05 16