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"F.A. Hayek commented that the Congress’ strategic agenda was "not to plan the future of freedom, but to write its obituary."
Vamos lá ver o que foi o "Congress" (lembrar as actuais "Fundações pela Democracia" onde se reúne a nata do pró-intervencionismo humanitário-moralista em política externa e militar ... onde a palavra mágica "aliança" é evocada como encantamento... como preparação para a última guerra mundial... eu já tentei apostar com alguém que o queira que a próxima bomba nuclear a ser lançada sobre civis será mais uma vez pelo ocidente... sabem aquela dos "humanitarians with a guilhotine" não nos larga ... bom, desculpem lá a má disposição e passemos à frente):
"Among those involved with the Congress were James Burnham, Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Daniel Bell, Arthur Schlesinger, Lionel Trilling, and the self-described "life-long Menshevik" Sidney Hook."
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"(...) After the Hitler-Stalin pact, the neoconservatives moved from cafeteria Trotskyites to apologists for the US warfare state without missing a beat, as Justin Raimondo shows in his 1993 Reclaiming the American Right. The CIA’s role in establishing the influence of the neocons came out in the late 60s, though the revelations were obscured by the primary actors’ denials of knowledge of the covert funding. The premiere organization of the anti-Stalinist left, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, provided a base of operations to launch a left-intellectual crusade against the Soviet Union. The revelation that the Congress was a CIA front destroyed the organization’s credibility, and it went belly up despite the best efforts of the Ford Foundation to keep it afloat. The Congress disappeared, but as Raimondo notes, "the core group later came to be known as the neoconservatives."
The Congress for Cultural Freedom was perhaps the Agency’s most ambitious attempt at control and influence of intellectual life throughout Europe and the world. Affiliates were established in America, Europe, Australia, Japan, Latin America, India, and Africa, although its appeal was limited in the Third World for obvious reasons. It combined concerts, conferences, and publishing efforts, promoting the State Department line on the Cold War. Magazines affiliated with the Congress included, among others, the China Quarterly, the New Leaderand, of course, Encounter. (...)"
Retirado de Neoconservatism: a CIA Front? This article first appeared in 1997 in The Rothbard-Rockwell Report.
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