Conservatives

[Lenin II]

I'm trying to write a short booklet about conservatives (specifically American ones, but it can also mean a broad term for the right-wing in any country) and the thing they do best--lying. This includes rips on how they encourage capitalism in general, the anti-intellectualism of their idealogy as a whole, their nationalism, sexism, homophobia, theocracy, etc. I am having difficulty organizing and writing this manual, and this I turn to the people i know to be the most intelligent--the comrades of revleft. Submit any material, ideas or writings that you feel are relevant.

Try to make your points eloquently as well as vent your frustration with stinging burns against conservatives.

Of course if you want to submit your own ideas about liberals, democrats or reformists, you may do that as well. :D But that's another booklet.

[Janus]

These past discussions might help you out:
Contradictions of conservative capitalism (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=46780&hl=conservative*)
Conservatives (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=46426&hl=conservative*)
conservatives (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=27764&hl=conservative*)
conservatives (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=24914&hl=conservative*)

[Tommy-K]

Research Charles Murray and include him in you booklet. He is an American sociologist who blames the poor black population of America for their own poverty and that this was a 'disease' which was spreading to the UK.

And include Thatcher obviously. You could link them both in together, they were good mates, surprise surprise.

[funkmasterswede]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30, 2007 01:07 am
I'm trying to write a short booklet about conservatives (specifically American ones, but it can also mean a broad term for the right-wing in any country) and the thing they do best--lying. This includes rips on how they encourage capitalism in general, the anti-intellectualism of their idealogy as a whole, their nationalism, sexism, homophobia, theocracy, etc. I am having difficulty organizing and writing this manual, and this I turn to the people i know to be the most intelligent--the comrades of revleft. Submit any material, ideas or writings that you feel are relevant.

Try to make your points eloquently as well as vent your frustration with stinging burns against conservatives.

Of course if you want to submit your own ideas about liberals, democrats or reformists, you may do that as well. :D But that's another booklet.
You are best to research Leo Strauss, the godfather of Neo-conservatism. Neoconservatives are quite an interesting bunch, mostly because their entire ideology is based on an assertion of the necessity of a shared value system above all else. This value system could be entirely based on a false premise. In the US, it is the christian religion. He felt that in order to achieve "excellence", freedom would have to be undermined.

My main qualm with conservatives is that they assert that traditional=good. This is a baseless assertion and reflects a tendency towards reactionary thought. The way they view traditional values as somehow idyllic has essentially no base. In 19th century America, I highly doubt that a utopia existed. So where does this idyllic, almost delusional view of traditional christian american values come from? It is fabricated to unite the people in a sense of false nationalism.