Neoconservatism, the roots of which are based in Trotskyism, is a political philosophy that emerged in America, and which supports using American economic and military power to bring liberalism, democracy, and human rights to other countries. It is therefore our contention that paleoconservatism and unhindered Constitutional authority is a better model for the United States. –Ed.
The man known as the “godfather of neoconservatism”, Irving Kristol, has died from lung cancer at the age of 89.
Mr Kristol rejected the communist beliefs of his youth to become a leading right-wing thinker and writer.
His ideas had a huge influence on the Bush administration and in 2002 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W Bush.
The magazine edited by his son William Kristol, The Weekly Standard, paid tribute to his “wisdom” and “wit”.
It added that his “generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public servants”.
Thinking About Neoconservatism
Trotskyist
Irving Kristol was born in New York’s Brooklyn neighbourhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
In the 1930s he was a Trotskyist but he turned his back on his radical left-wing beliefs in favour of liberalism.
In the 1960s he rejected that after the rise of the New Left.