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Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6590 Post contents: 1. Which Personalism? The French School, or the German-Polish school? Among the latter is included a Polish philosopher, by name Wojtyła. 2. Clerical Fascists will never forgive Pius XI for <i>Mit Brennender Sorge</i>. Those among them who are Teutonoophobes will also never forgive the Christdemokraten for giving Germany a sound constitution, peace and friendship with France, and prosperity, something no other political color did. 3. Kari Konkola, while making some good observations, regrettably continues Woodrow Wilson's view of Mitteleuropa. It is also the Neocon view. Repeatedly in their journals they try to equate their "World War IV", with the Cold War against Communism; with the 2nd World War against Racialist Nationalism, Fascism, and Japanese expansion; and the First against putative "Prussian Militarism", as if France, Germany, and even the US were not doing the same; as if the 2nd Reich were a junta; as if the Allied Powers were not holding empires of coolies. Truth be told, the German and Austrian Empires were superior places making the superior contributions to the West from 1770 until 1933 than the United States, the United Kingdom, and the French Republic(s). Truth be told, the culture of Mitteleuropa was superlative at everything it did and in all areas of human achievement, save politics. After 1945, the Christdemokraten had a great achievement here also. Gringos of course know nothing about this culture. Of Ludwig Windthorst, Bishop Kettler, Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen, or of the German connection to Leo XIII certain people would have us know nothing. Also among the products of this culture, and its defenders, are Benedict XVI, John Paul II, John Lukacs, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and our own Paul Gottfried -- one reason he's a treasure. I fault Maurras for his Teutonophobia, whatever his other virtues. The equation of Jews with Germany, as old as the Dreyfus affair, was another of his vices, and one that persists. I fear that we'll have our own Dreyfus affair once the Iraq War is clearly perceived as lost. Sent at: 2008 05 16