The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left
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This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumping ship. The Ex-Communist’s Conscience https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm Turned Around: Why Leftists Go Right https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol https://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html The Neoconservative Counterrevolution https://jacobin.com/2015/04/neoconservatives-kristol-podhoretz-hartman-culture-war How Ex-Communists Shaped American Conservatism https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-ex-communists-shaped-american-conservatism/426849/ Trotskycons https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/06/trotskycons-stephen-schwartz/ The Neoconservative Journey https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817945725_105.pdf
The Legacy of the Trotskyist Right https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/SneigoskiTOQV6N2.pdf Like our theme song? Check out Autumn Brigade here: https://autumnbrigade.bandcamp.com/album/geist-ist-tot
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