i can always count on michael pugliese to ferret out all kinds of useful
data from the Right and Left.

keep it coming, michael - i read 100% of it!  just can't get enought of
Right and Left ideology!!!

norm

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Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> >Michael:
> >
> >So then the lines of demarcation are along political idealogies?
> >
> >What does the Right-Wing Intelligentsia want?
> >
> >Who do they want it from?
> >
> >F. Leon
>
> I think I did a cursory post yesterday briefly saying that I think one
> cannot seperate ideology from more material factors. Though of coasr one has
> to make analytical distinctions.
>    As for THE Right-Wing Intelligentsia- Which sector? The Neo-Cons are the
> ones with the most influence but, there are idea mongerers ( there is a
> great quote from Lionel Trilling on the right-wing intellectuals of the 40's
> and 50's I'll dig it up later for y'all that haven't heard it before. All
> the treatments of the Neo-Conservatives cite it.) in all the various sectors
> of the Right.
>    Here is a handy typology, courtesy of Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons new
> book, "Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, " Guilford
> Press, 2000. I don't have a scanner ( and have 67 other new e-mails to look
> at!) so I'll just type the different classifications. I can expand later if
> any don't seem self-evident. I'm pretty well versed in the lit that the
> Neo-Cons and the Paleo-Cons put out and also the
> Militia/Patriot/Constitutionalist nutters (Regressive Populist Patriots in
> Berlet and Lyons)
>
>    Conservatives
>       Secular Right
>           Corporate Internationalists
>           Business Nationalists
>           Economic Libertarians
>           National Security Militarists
>           Neoconservatives
>
>    Christian Right
>       Christian Nationalists
>
>  The Hard Right
>       Christian Theocrats
>
>  Xenophobic Right
>      Paleoconservatives
>      Regressive Populist Patriots
>      White Nationalists
>     Far Right
>
> Again I left out the descriptive passages that Berlet and Lyons supply in
> the Appendix A to their book. The further right one goes the lower the
> quality of the ideas but even in the gun nut sector there are well developed
> (if to leftist and centrist and neo-con eyes, bizarre and dangerous and just
> plain paranoid) tropes that have long roots in US history.
>
> Michael Pugliese
>
> P.S. Who Do They Want It From? Again depends on who they are appealing to.
> The "Patriots" want the NWO, UN, ZOG, ATF, FBI off their backs.
> The Xtians want Secular Humanists driven from the schools and the media,
> Hollywood, etc.
>  The Neo-Cons would settle for in Jeane Kirkpatrick's phrase a,
> "Conservative Welfare State." (Think welfare reform...)