Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6581 Post contents: Ah, found it. Here is John Lukacs on the evolution of American nationalism, and on the tendency of later, non-British immigrants to be more nationalistic than the original British-American stock; from chapter four of "A New Republic" (formerly published as "Outgrowing Democracy"): "One of the results (of the new, non-British immigration post circa 1820) was the transformation of American patriotism into nationalism of a newer kind....The words "national" or "nation" are not to be found in the Constitution...during the century of mass immigration, from 1820 to 1920, the currency of this word increased....During the second Red Scare, many of the most strident nationalists WERE second-generation immigrants. There was Joe McCarthy (Irish-German) whose equation of anti-communism with American nationalism('s) purpose was not merely the nailing down of disloyal Communists but the HUMILIATION OF AMERICANS OF AN OLDER, ANGLO-SAXON STOCK, of people of more mellow and liberal persuasions. (Emphasis supplied.) In 1949 I was amused to read that an American Legion post in Philadelphia accused the directors of the Philadelphia chapter of United World Federalists (an innocuous group of liberals) of un-Americanism. The names of the accused were, without exception, English, Welsh, or Scottish; their accusers' names were Ukrainian, Italian, and Slovak." Sent at: 2008 05 16