2006/12/05
Utopianism
"Neoconservatism is actually a more extreme form of revolutionary utopianism than that of the Bolsheviks and the Jacobins. The Soviet Communist Party was content with trying to remake Russians. The Jacobins ran out of steam early, and Napoleon reinstituted the old order, dispensing titles of nobility and crowning himself emperor. Only neoconservatives are sufficiently ignorant and delusional as to believe that America's overthrowing an Arab leader will result in Arab states reconstituting themselves in the West's image.
Neoconservatives have demonstrated an unrivaled ability to detach themselves from reality."
Bush Is No Conservative, by Paul Craig Roberts
// posted by CN @ 11:47 AM 
