The belief (anti-Jewish implicitly/explicitly and explicitly anti-Zionist) that George Bush has been hijaced by a "Likudnik" group of "Marxist" (more specifically ex-Trotskyite) "neoconservatives" has been around in the US Iraq/terrorism disputes since 2000/2001 and its roots in anti-Semitic and anti-Israel pseudo-intellectualism predate that.

The equivalent of the label "neoconservative" in much political discurse tracks the FSU press trope back-in-the-day of such citations as "Comrade M. Sarka (nee Mordeci Yavishinky) is well known for his much-touted cosmopolitan learning, but true Soviets will recognize the fundamentally foreign element of his personality"). For the 'insky" subsitute "neoconservative".

It's good to see you pick up on this lexicon TA, if some four years on. But your naive acceptance of the integrity of labeling such individuals as, say, Paul Wolfowitz or Bill Kristol, as spawn of Marxism betrays a gap in your curriculum.

I look forward to reading that "research" has revealed that the "international banking system" is under the control of "a foreign combine of Marxists and hidden-capitalists".
Paul Freedman | 11.27.05 - 2:12 pm | #

Paul, I am just making fun of this :+:
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 11.27.05 - 4:59 pm | #

TA--my embarassment is matched only by my relief. my irony meter must be broken :-{
Paul Freedman | 11.28.05 - 9:17 am | #

Tzemach, I thought the likeness on the banknote was uncanny. Proleptic?

Gandalin
Gandalin | Homepage | 11.30.05 - 9:03 pm | #