Wolfowitz’s tomb
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
05/24/07
Paul Wolfowitz’s doctrines are a summa of numerous failed political dogmas of the 20th century. His notion of politics was essentially Bolshevik, but less democratic in practice than Lenin’s. Wolfowitz had no concept of mass politics. Nor did he have an idea of democratic centralism, the core of Leninism, by which the vanguard led the cells of the party. Wolfowitz believed only in the vanguard. The dutiful student of obscurantist authoritarian philosopher Leo Strauss operated as a solitary intellectual at the head of a single cell, the lone Wolfowitz. His view of international political dynamics was a strange concoction of the most heated, impassioned idea of Leon Trotsky — the permanent revolution — admixed with the most rigid, Manichaean metaphor of John Foster Dulles — the domino theory of the Cold War. Dulles’ idea, applied to Southeast Asia, was a reaction to his mistaken understanding of Communist expansion as Trotskyist in conception. From this thesis and antithesis came the synthesis of Paul Wolfowitz. Welcome to the dustbin of history...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/05/24/wolfowitz_aftermath/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leo+Strauss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Straussian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
by Sidney Blumenthal
05/24/07
Paul Wolfowitz’s doctrines are a summa of numerous failed political dogmas of the 20th century. His notion of politics was essentially Bolshevik, but less democratic in practice than Lenin’s. Wolfowitz had no concept of mass politics. Nor did he have an idea of democratic centralism, the core of Leninism, by which the vanguard led the cells of the party. Wolfowitz believed only in the vanguard. The dutiful student of obscurantist authoritarian philosopher Leo Strauss operated as a solitary intellectual at the head of a single cell, the lone Wolfowitz. His view of international political dynamics was a strange concoction of the most heated, impassioned idea of Leon Trotsky — the permanent revolution — admixed with the most rigid, Manichaean metaphor of John Foster Dulles — the domino theory of the Cold War. Dulles’ idea, applied to Southeast Asia, was a reaction to his mistaken understanding of Communist expansion as Trotskyist in conception. From this thesis and antithesis came the synthesis of Paul Wolfowitz. Welcome to the dustbin of history...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/05/24/wolfowitz_aftermath/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leo+Strauss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Straussian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
rudkla - 25. Mai, 14:26
