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Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6611 Post contents: <i>In lieu of the fact that Versailles had swept away the monarchist regimes which guaranteed a form of stability</i> [some did, some didn't]<i>, coupled with the virulent anti-clericalism of “democratic” political entities</i> [not the Christian Democrats]<i>, what political systems would they have put together to deal with the period’s untamed Bolsehvism?</i> I have said before that the numerous reports of atrocities coming out of the Soviet Union in the period made some Catholics and some Conservatives so blind in the Right eye that they thought, foolishly, that they had no enemies on the Right. Fascism, in all its forms, takes advantage of the fears in "old elites" of Church, titled nobility, the bourgeoisie, the army, democratic nationalists, and the "yellow" movement among the proletariat. To their credit, some members of these old elites -- Pius XI, Otto Archduke von Habsburg, Count von Stauffenberg, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Thomas Mann, Blessed Clemmons August von Galen, The Rev. Luigi Sturzo, Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi, Robert Schuman, Georges-Augustin Bidault, and a young seminarian put to slave labor busting rocks in occupied Poland, by name Wojtyla -- were not so blinded, and called Fascism (and fascism and Clerical Fascism) what it was. Some of them put together "political systems" that more than adequately combated Fascism and Communism and made for prosperity at home. So should Mr. Tom Buggeln should also join them in so calling. Sent at: 2008 05 16