Excerpt: CULTS OF THE CULTURE WARS (PART 2). A. GLASS 2021

 

"...Like Irving Kristol, both he and Murry Rothbard, although Rothbard was fiercely  indifferent to  the institutionalization of right wing government and its associated imperialism, were neoconservatives in the sense that their common ground would be over the disdain for socialist influences and equality movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to which right wing libertarianism, began to become a focal point for some of the more right leaning Republican viewpoints in American politics.   Rothbard’s libertarian view of his ‘Individualist Utopian’ free market within right wing capitalism, is completely hinged on private ownership and individualist control, in its almost paranoid fear that any form of revolutionary discord would unsettle the natural balance that Austrian Economics and American conservative idealisms rely on.   This was a pitch that the grandfather of neoconservativism Kristol also feared, that if there isn’t a political vanguard to offer the growing counter-culture, the middle class may certainty fall to what Rothbard called “frenzied nihilists” of the left,  in the last years of Rothbard’s life he split with the Libertarian party to formulate, with his colleague Lew Rockwell, creating a fringe political philosophy called Paleo-Libertarianism.  It was all but a subbranch  of the broader appeal of right wing libertarianism, adding a more reactionary script as an offering, very much like Rothbard’s fear that a conservative middle class would descend into a postmodern, anti-natural order of leftwing egalitarianism.  Hence leading to chaos throughout Western civilization, to which Rockwell in his 1990 Essay Manifesto “The Case for PaleoLibertarianism” elaborating  further on Rothbard’s deep fear that a natural order could collapse if the socialists and the left wing are given any attempt at equalizing all of society..." 

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