neoconservative

is an exsocialist, often an ex-Marxist, who has passed through some testing experience of disillusion with the Communist or Moscow line.

'What is it that makes a neoconservative anyway' Typically, the product is an exsocialist, often an ex-Marxist, who has passed through some testing experience of disillusion with the Communist or Moscow line. In domestic affairs, he or she will profess the virtues of some kind of welfare capitalism. On the international scene, the neoconservative organizes everything around the need to resist the Soviet design'everything including the possession of and the readiness to use nuclear weapons. The state of Israel is regarded as an especially important Western commitment. 'Excesses' on our own side in the Kulturkampf are not so much excused as expected, and discounted in advance.'

is one who doesn't have a style or mood, rather they are a style and a mood, reflecting the tone of 'I don't care if self-interest is unfashionable... I'm brave enough to affirm it.'.

'The neocons do not have a style or a mood... they are a style and a mood. From the 'tough-minded' realism of Commentary and the Public Interest to the muscular 'family values' aesthetic of the New Criterion, the tone is one of 'I don't care if self-interest is unfashionable... I'm brave enough to affirm it.' And what holds for individuals and nations may be said, in this galère, to hold for ideas: the more strenuous the better, even if this means the more circular.'

is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

neoconservative, n.Definitions

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