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> Some Freedom House board members: > > Joshua Muravchik >From Wikipedia: Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches Middle East politics, democracy, and the history of socialism. He is also a patron of the Henry Jackson Society, which sponsors discussions and activities around the political legacy of Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. He describes himself as a neo-conservative, despite the disapproval of his social-democratic father and socialist mother. His father criticized his Heaven on earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism: "Josh Muravchik’s father, Manny, eighty-five-years-old, breathing through oxygen tubes, [was] handing out his own two-page Xeroxed affirmation of socialism." "Manny let the reader know that his own life, and that of Josh’s mother, would be impossible today absent the very sort of anti-market reforms—Medicare, rent-controlled apartments—for which they’d worked while Josh was still a pisher and toward which he sounded at best ambivalent today." "Father told son that if there was utopian impulse to be feared, it was that messianic laissez-faire nonsense he must have picked up once he’d left home. You think your mother and I could survive in your perfect world, Mr. Capitalist Shill?" His mother was too upset with his book to attend the discussion. In 2006, he called for the bombing of Iran in a Los Angeles Times op-ed entitled "Bomb Iran". ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
