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New Fusionism.” It South) Against Fed- Stitute Because Is an Excellent Term for This Out- Eral Tyranny ROTHBARD-ROCKWELL REPORT an old and valued friend and The ”New mentor of mine, was basically a Fusionism”: A libertarian, or, a far better term, what we would now call a paleo- Movement For libertarian. He believed in reason and tradition, believed in indi- Our Time vidual liberty and the free market, by Murray N. hated the public school system Rothbard with a purple passion, detested THE EAR At the historic first open hippie irrationality, believed in an by Sarah Barton meeting of the new John objective ethic, and You heard it Randolph Club (see below), JRC championed decen- first from the Ear: President Dr. Thomas Fleming, tralization and states’ that when Charles editor of Chronicles, referred to rights (including Murray was fired by the new paleocon/paleolibertarian those of the Old the Manhattan In- alliance as‘yhe new fusionism.” It South) against fed- stitute because is an excellent term for this out- eral tyranny. He was his research into standing new ideological and po- ardently in favor of, the welfare mess litical movement, the very first rather than opposed strayed into the movement born of the glorious to, Christianity. (See h-o-t area of race new post-Cold War, post-Com- my Frank S. Meyer: and IQ, Murray munist era. For, as became evi- The Fusionist as called up his old dent at the JRC meeting and has Liberfarian, 1981, friend and fish- been clear for some time, this Burlingame, CA: ing buddy Eddie new movement is far more than Center for Libertarian “Sexual Diversity” an “alliance,” which implies two Studies, 1985.) And strategically, Crane. Remember that for years, inherently separate entities. Frank strongly opposed from Eddie had touted Murray far and Paleolibertarianism and paleo- within the Buckley-National Re- wide as the big libertarian intel- conservatism is increasingly a viewpolicy of purging the conser- lectual, a non-doctrinaire moder- great coming together, afusion of vative movement of all “extrem- ate compared to the first R. But different but complementary ele- ist” groups: notably, the libertar- Eddie gave Charles Murray the ments. ians, the Birchers, and the cold shoulder, Murray finally Randians. Meyer had the unique winding up at the AEI. Problems of the Old gift of setting forth his own ideo- Monthslater,thestory broke Fusionism logicalposition with great strength big in the New York Times “ Fusionism” was originally and vigor, initiating ideological (November 30). Times writer acreation of the fertile mind of top debates with other conservative Jason DeParle interviewed National Reviewtheoretician and thinkers, while at the same time Manhattan Institute head Bill editor Frank S. Meyer. It was a trying to keep together all the Hammett who, pressed by call for a unified conservative factions within the broader move- DeParle, sounded increasingly movement based on a fusing of ment and maintaining personal inarticulate. First saying he the previously disparate and friendships with most of the worried about adverse publicity, seemingly antithetical libertarian clashing factions. Meyerforesaw Hammett finally stammered that and traditionalist wings of the that purging extremists would in- “when you say this stuff it just conservative movement. Frank, (Cont. page 3, col. 1) (Cont. next page,co/. 1) newsletter. The whole enterprise calls the statist cheat an sounds bad. I have to rethink thi may be next. Since Profs. Don --“intellectual heir” to Locke, damn thing.” Next came old budd Lavoie and Jack High had used Jefferson, and DuBois. Eddie who tired to explain why hc Nobel-prize winner James In fact, King was an turned down Charles Murray flai Buchanan to force money out 01 intellectual heir only to DuBois, “It’s not an area I wish to ge Koch the last time their center was for King was a life-long involved in.” DeParle, trying to pi1 slated for the junk-heap, it has Communist fellow-traveler, and down one of these slippery think been on the death watch list. Dubois a long-time member of tankers, finally asked Eddic Buchanan is now retired. Note: the Communist Party’s central whether he shared Charle! wielding the knife on his own committee. Murray’s view that the entirt pe:>ple is Richie Fink, head minion “Forced integration,” says question of white-black IQ an( in Witchita. Joe Sobran, “is tlo racial harmony ***** in t e II ig e nce h ad ‘I un f o rt u na t e II what a shotguri marriage is to become taboo.”Said Eddie: “Ithin1 Last month, the Ear reported romance.” And King was holding that sometimes taboos serve i on Peace & Freedom, the new the shotgun. legitimate social function.” Wha grassroots organization to be Why then would left- happened to the fearless searct funded by billionaire David Koch libertarians,who are supposed to for “truth,” Eddie? Isn’t that wha arid headed by Ed “Sexual believe in freedom of association, your think-tank (Cato Institute) i: Diversity” Crane of the Cato love King? Ear has a hunch that pursuing with your tax-exemp Institute. P&F was to wrap it’s King’s devotion to what Ed funds? libertarian political ideas in the Crane praises as “sexual It seems that while “S-D cultural agenda of the left, but no diversity.” King bedded other Eddie is all in favor of Sexua more. Apparently it’s dead. men’s wives, other wives’ men, Diversity, he is not in favor o (E!xcuse Ear for a moment while underagedgirls, and young boys. intellectual diversity: in favor oi she changes into a black dress.) Ear‘s guess is ‘that even holes in intellectual taboos but not sexua Longtime Kochtopus’r the ground had to watch out. No ones. That’s left-libertarianism. Sheldon Richman blames the inronder the LLs love him. ***** Ear’s “sabotage.” Flatteringas this *t*** When a famous journalisl i~i,the Ear knows the left-libertarian A famoirs conservative called the Cat0 Institute“libertarian extravaganzawas vetoed by Ed’s ournalist recently explained Ed neo-cons,” Ear was unpersuaded. DOSS, Richie Fink. 2rane’s attack on Lew Rockwell: Then Ed Crane hired Roger and Richie-a Koch Washington ‘Lew Rockwellthinks marriage is Juliana Pilon, the socialdemocratic ‘bbbyist-worried that P&Fwould ‘or men and women, rather than answer to Nicolae and Elena, and mean too much notorietyjust now, nen and men, or men and sheep.” placedthemin high positions. Then ,vith legal troubles looming for the ***** Charles Koch, The Funder, set up ?mpire, involving an alleged In- Jim Peron, who flew to a globalist think-tank and endowed lian oil scandal and hundreds of South Africa to work with the chair for ex-Fed official Manuel nillions of dollars. Stay tuned for ibertarian Free Market Johnson at George Mason urther developments! -oundation, is back in San University. Then apoliticalscientist ***** 3ancisco. Jim had leased his revealed that Cat0 gets $1 million Speaking of Sheldon ‘ree Forum Books to ISIL, the a year from Olin and other neocon Tchman, he and Bill Bradford nternational Societyfor Individual foundations. Hmmm. lenounced the second R’s claim .iberty (the old Libertarian ***** hat left libertarians love Martin nternational), but the contract The Koch antiAustrianthink- -uther King. Now they fulfill the illowed Jim lo change his mind, tank at George Mason, the Market laradigm. Sheldon’s editorial in ind he has. Note: the contract Process Center, has closed down 3ill’s new Libertydefends King as lad stipulated that lSlL keep the its irrationalist academic journal the essence of individualism,” ~oypornography corner of the after the first issue, andits student looh-poohs his plagiarism, and rookstore in operation. 0 2 January1991 (Fusionism.. conf. from P. 1) munism and the Soviet Union did destruction; for the tough Marxist evitably lead to a conservative not only poison the conservative and Leninist-trained neocons movement shorn of all principle movement’s explicit foreign and were able, by paying lip service to except respectability and a seat military programs. For it led Frank, such venerable conservative at the trough of government wen though personally strongly principles as the free market, to Power. anti-socialist, to embrace warmly destroy Meyer’s own conserva- But there wasonegreat flaw as comrades any wing of social- tiveguiding principlesand replace in Meyer’s fusionism that proved ists who were defectors from or them by warmed-over social de- to be fatal, and destructive of converts to anti-Communism. In mocracy in the guise of “neo- fusionism itself. In short, Frank’s conservatism,” “global democ- an era when strategic focus, racy,” “the Opportunity Society,” many, if not most, The Enemy for “progressive conservatism,” or conservative in- him and for the whatever other slogan of the tellectuals were conservative moment might prove opportune. defectors from movement, was In opposing the old fusion- Communism, not statism and ism, I tried vainly to argue with Frank took pride socialism but conservativesthat the Enemy was in being the top Communism. not Communism or the Soviet cadre Communist Hence, it was Union but statism and socialism, of all. A veteran under Frank’s and that once one embraces that Communist who theoretical and widervision, it would become clear got his start as or- strategic aegis that the main enemy of both ganizer at the that the conser- American liberty and traditional London School of vative move- Americanism resided not in Economics, Frank ment rushed to Moscow or Havana but in was a leading welcome and Washington, D.C. theoretician, a member of the honor any species of dangerous National Committee of the Com- socialist so long as they were The Main Menace: munist Party, USA, and head of certifiably anti-Communist or anti- from Communism to the CP’s second leading cadre Soviet.
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