tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post7728120211463560415..comments2024-03-28T17:58:56.707+11:00Comments on The Social Pathologist: Francis on McCarthyThe Social Pathologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-86964920443483580442016-07-26T04:17:52.027+10:002016-07-26T04:17:52.027+10:00Thanks for this great post! - This provides good i...Thanks for this great post! - This provides good insight. You might also be interested to know more about generating more leads and getting the right intelligence to engage prospects.<a href="http://technodatagroup.com/geneticist-email-list" rel="nofollow"> Techno Data Group</a> implements new lead gen ideas and strategies for generating more leads and targeting the right leads and accounts.<a href="http://technodatagroup.com/pathology-email-list" rel="nofollow">Pathology Email List </a> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16239945446845453143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-59565405639778485392016-07-13T14:44:47.540+10:002016-07-13T14:44:47.540+10:00Cool article I always wait your posts because very...Cool article I always wait your posts because very interest... thanks for share...Gallery Hairstylehttps://7newhairstyles.blogspot.co.idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-25293366936018547202016-07-13T14:42:46.668+10:002016-07-13T14:42:46.668+10:00I think this article very nice... nice share...I think this article very nice... nice share...Lagu Indonesia Terbaruhttps://adsensenesia7.blogspot.co.id/2016/07/lagu-indonesia-terbaru.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-17305396187633604452016-07-11T10:38:05.726+10:002016-07-11T10:38:05.726+10:00I too would like to add my compliments of your blo...I too would like to add my compliments of your blog. Your research and essays are eye opening, and insightful. I learn a great deal from every post. Your efforts are very much appreciated. Keep it up!Augustinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-18543389924315747622016-07-10T11:41:05.388+10:002016-07-10T11:41:05.388+10:00Thanks for the comments Jason,
Unfortunately, I c...Thanks for the comments Jason,<br /><br />Unfortunately, I can't comment on them (as yet)as I'm just about the fly out of the country. I will respond when I get back. (about 4 weeks)<br /><br />Just wouldn't mind leaving you with this link which I feel is pertinent to your points.<br /><br />http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/nixononhisscase.htmlThe Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-44300026258513537982016-07-10T09:38:40.699+10:002016-07-10T09:38:40.699+10:00But you know, perhaps theorizing about all of this...But you know, perhaps theorizing about all of this is moot. Whether Trump is elected or not, we probably will soon be entering a period of much greater populism. The results of it will be plain for everyone to see, in Technicolor, and we'll find out if you and Francis are right.<br /><br />Just to answer your question doctor from another thread, I first went to Germany as a little kid with my family (my maternal grandmother was Pomeranian and had after the war lived in Munich for a bit) and off on my own as an adolescent, and later visited Moscow as an undergraduate (a mission trip, when I was still devout). More significantly, I taught ESL after college in eastern Slovakia 1997-1998 which gave me some opportunity for wandering around the continent, and have travelled around Europe sporadically since then (only Central Europe, except for my recent trip with my mom to Italy where we commemerated my late sister). I don't mention all this to toot my horn or anything but simply to suggest the joy I get out of travel, which does a lot of good for my soul and temperament. Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-11972700507642877732016-07-10T09:16:27.598+10:002016-07-10T09:16:27.598+10:00In making these qualifications, I certainly don...In making these qualifications, I certainly don't want to appear unsympathetic to your thesis. A level of populism in our age of mass democracy is inevitable and probably salutary if handled well. But there's the rub - mastering and taming such an unruly horse requires great character and intelligence, qualities that fortunately individuals like Truman, Ike, and Reagan had and which they used to channel Americans' strong anti-Communism, that compund of noble and ingnorant elements, into productive channels. For most politicians alas, populism becomes a tiger that they mount and then realize to their consternation they cannot let go of, and they end up wreaking havoc and immense collelaterol damge. Such is what I believe occured with McCarthy, and will I suspect also happen with a President Trump.Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-18348577188595030392016-07-10T09:09:34.425+10:002016-07-10T09:09:34.425+10:00As you both point out the McCarthy phenomenon was ...As you both point out the McCarthy phenomenon was much more than about spies in government. As I see it at least, it was in many ways a delayed reaction against the Roosevelt years, which conservatives were too weak to tackle at the time but could now against a less deft Truman (in 1946 the Republicans' campaign message was "Had enough?"). And of course there were some reasonable criticisms to be made, probably most notably against FDR's failure to limit more Stalin's conquests at the end of the war (e.g. in Czechoslovakia or the Balkans, where unlike in Poland or eastern German, in my opinion, we may have provided better protection if we had been more longheaded). Yet I think McCarthy's supporters often went well beyond such legitimate criticism and were just hysterical, labeling members of the elite traitors because they "lost China [as if we ever had that country in the first place]" or "sold out the Poles at Yalta [as if there is anything realistic we could have done againt Stalin at that point, who had every reason from his point of view for keeping the country under his tight grip]." Frankly, I think many of such critics (interstingly enough often 2nd generation ethnics - Croats, Irish, Slovaks, etc.) in their perhaps understandable frustration were simply unwilling to admit then what a Mccarthy supporter like Pat Buchanan asserts now, that the U.S. shouldn't have fought the Nazis and that half of Europe under Stalin was worse than all of Europe under Hitler.<br />Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-10470941719095995702016-07-10T09:06:44.590+10:002016-07-10T09:06:44.590+10:00Another interesting essay, doctor, as usual, altho...Another interesting essay, doctor, as usual, although honesty dictates that I register some respectful disagreement against you and Francis based on the excerpts provided. I think your potrayal of the elite of the late 40s and 50s, for example, should at least be qualified. By the time McCarthy made his famous Wheeling speech the Truman Administration - the liberal establishment par excellence, after all - was already comducting serious efforts to root out whatever remaining Communists there were in significant government organs. And on the Cold War front, remarkable - and often unpopular and costly - efforts had been made by that same elite to right the ship of state against the Soviet Union. For all of their flaws, I think Cold War liberals (of which there were many then) deserve tremendous credit for their brave and realistic (vs. populist and Manichean) statesmanship then. (Consider Truman's firing of the very populist MacArthur, which was widely criticized but ultimately considered by even the president's critics the wise thing to do.)Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-56790928382558151922016-07-07T07:30:00.635+10:002016-07-07T07:30:00.635+10:00@Colin
Thanks a lot. It really is appreciated.@Colin<br /><br />Thanks a lot. It really is appreciated.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-69972246931029109662016-07-07T01:54:27.317+10:002016-07-07T01:54:27.317+10:00Never left a comment before, but I love your blog....Never left a comment before, but I love your blog. These ideas I have felt most of my life, but not had the proper language to express and refine until recently. Keep up the good work, you have expanded a number of minds.Colin Reilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04488577917624820398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-47471887215784175102016-07-06T10:31:03.718+10:002016-07-06T10:31:03.718+10:00Thanks Sam
I'm looking forward to the book.Thanks Sam<br /><br />I'm looking forward to the book.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-844294140134969772016-07-04T22:33:27.258+10:002016-07-04T22:33:27.258+10:00These essays are very interesting. I've recei...These essays are very interesting. I've received my copy of "Beautiful Losers" but haven't read it yet, and my limited reading of Burnham and Chambers is many years in the past, so I don't feel I have enough background to be able to comment.Dr. Mabusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04190706197508265132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-5365428786584082662016-07-02T09:17:05.120+10:002016-07-02T09:17:05.120+10:00Very enlightening piece. By analogizing the old e...Very enlightening piece. By analogizing the old elite's relationship to communism with the current mainstream conservative movement's accommodation with the Left, you really clarify how correct McCarthy was and how much to the heart of things he was getting in drawing attention to this relationship. <br /><br />You may also be interested in Francis' essay "Neoconservatism and Managerial Democracy: How Conservatism Evolved into the Right-Wing of the New Class". It is reprinted in Radix Journal vol. 2, The Great Purge. <br /><br />More importantly, and exciting, Radix is just about to release, or may have released just today, Francis' heretofore unpublished book "Leviathan and its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in the 20th Century". The Burnham influence is obvious even from the subtitle. <br /><br />Link below for your reference. <br /><br />http://www.radixjournal.com/books/leviathan<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-24109841334796544582016-07-02T08:18:40.351+10:002016-07-02T08:18:40.351+10:00Thanks for the feedback. I was getting the feeling...Thanks for the feedback. I was getting the feeling that I wasn't getting much traction.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-4679327949640628772016-07-02T04:36:43.949+10:002016-07-02T04:36:43.949+10:00I only want to say: Thank you for this series of p...I only want to say: Thank you for this series of posts about Francis. <br /><br />Saying that they are enlightening is an understatement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com