"... Bill Kauffman is a writer who defies categorization, which is only appropriate because people who defy categorization happens to be his favorite subject: his latest book, Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists, just out from ISI Books, illustrates how the tired old labels of “left” and “right” no longer seem to apply — not when ostensible “conservatives” espouse a Jacobin radicalism and exhibit an abiding faith in the power of the state to effect revolutionary transformation on a world scale. His book is a series of portraits of disparate individuals whose stubborn individualism captures the underlying spirit of the real America: from Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, to regionalist painter Grant Wood, and including farmer-writer Wendell Berry, publisher Henry Regnery, and Senator Eugene McCarthy. These mini-biographies, taken together, add up to a patriotism more authentic than the nationalistic leader-worship and war hysteria promoted under that label by the neocons. "
PS: E a juntar a tudo isto, o pró-americanismo hoje parece ser mais um acto de adoração do estado-federal-complexo-militar-industrial-bom-império do que própriamente do espirito revolucionário americano por uma ordem interna natural não política (e não duma ordem democrática como fim último), que por separatismo estabelece uma "república" onde os direitos individuais e de propriedade, seriam a base do sistema social.
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