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It takes an attentive ear to hear the
self-styled conservatives talking like Socialists, but that is exactly where
their language comes from. It is sort of like the way the Cheka was modeled on
the Tsarist Okhrana. In the case of neo-conservativism, the first generation of
ideologues was dominated by "ex" Stalinists. They managed to carry their baggage
of intellectual brutalism and mechanical messiahism right across the spectrum
from the "dictatorship of the proletariat" to the "magic of the free market".
Never mind that in both versions the apparatchiki are behind the
curtain pulling the levers, the important thing is the embroidery on the
curtain!
Ray wrote,
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