{"id":5968,"date":"2016-12-09T15:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/09\/the-life-and-work-of-david-horowitz\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:36:25","slug":"the-life-and-work-of-david-horowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/09\/the-life-and-work-of-david-horowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Work of David Horowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good primer<\/a> on the history of the New Left and an account of David Horowitz' transition from red-diaper Communist to formidable and prolific foe of the Left, with summaries of his works. Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In The Art of Political War<\/em> Horowitz observes that progressives have inverted Clausewitz\u2019s famous dictum and treat politics as \u201cwar continued by other means.\u201d By contrast, conservatives approach politics as a debate over policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservatives generally, and Republicans in particular, either fail to understand that there is a political war taking place, or disapprove of the fact that there is. Conservatives approach politics as a series of management issues, and hope to impose limits on what government may do. Their paradigm is based on individualism, compromise, and partial solutions. This puts conservatives at a distinct disadvantage in political combat with the Left, whose paradigm of oppression and liberation inspires missionary zeal and is perfectly suited to aggressive tactics and no-holds-barred combat. Horowitz\u2019s political strategy is to turn the tables on the Left, framing \u201cliberals\u201d and \u201cprogressives\u201d as the actual oppressors of minorities and the poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A good primer on the history of the New Left and an account of David Horowitz' transition from red-diaper Communist to formidable and prolific foe of the Left, with summaries of his works. Excerpt: In The Art of Political War Horowitz observes that progressives have inverted Clausewitz\u2019s famous dictum and treat politics as \u201cwar continued … Continue reading “The Life and Work of David Horowitz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}