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'''"Neo-Conservatism is Trotskyism"''' names the genealogical claim popularized by Michael Lind, developed by paleoconservatives like Paul Gottfried, and used polemically by Infrared — that neoconservatism is the continuation of Trotskyist politics by other means.
"'''"Neo-conservatism is Trotskyism"''' — permanent revolution secularized: endless ideological war wearing different clothes.


== The genealogy ==
== From the streams ==
* Irving Kristol, James Burnham, Max Shachtman: the Trotskyist or Shachtmanite left of the 1930s-40s became the Cold War right of the 1950s-70s ("Shachtmanites staffed the neocon infrastructure").
* The Iraq coalition as factional project ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/0f7c08ea-3a3f-4a62-bfa0-69d5531d0cc6/ TRUE RED PILL NEWS stream]: France not on board, "freedom fries") — neocons as a network with its own eschatology, distinct from American interests.
* Continuities claimed: permanent revolution becomes global democratic crusade; the world-historical vanguard party becomes the ideological network (Commentary, Public Interest, AEI); the proletariat is replaced by "democracy" as the universal subject; enemies are counter-revolutionaries to be smashed without limits.
* The DeSantis fusion ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/3210a2c9-0c8c-406c-b838-1f5873805d71/ MAJOR VICTORY | COOKING GROYPERS stream]): "Anti-woke plus neoconservatism — that was DeSantis... bourgeois retirees who combined Christian nationalist anti-woke sentiment with neoconservative aggressive foreign military agendas." (Trump absorbed and transformed the brand after January '24.)
* The foreign-policy record: Iraq war architects (Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle) applying "democratic revolution" doctrine with Bolshevik means.
* Trotskyism itself dismissed on the merits ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/01b75999-cac8-4153-b7fe-53ddacd54b59/ FBI AFTER ME! stream]): "We know what Trotskyism looks like. It's a dead end. I see nothing to debate about. Why should I be a Trotskyist? The burden is on you." And the bureaucracy question redirected: only the ML tradition (Mao's Cultural Revolution) developed a real answer to bureaucratic state machines — not the permanent-faction tradition.
 
== Infrared usage ==
Haz wields the equation as a weapon against liberalism's right wing: '''the ideology of endless war is a secular eschatology''' — revolution without the people, universalism without the class. It also serves the deeper point: ideologies migrate across nominal labels while their structure persists, so judging movements by their actual social content — not their vocabulary — is the only serious method (see [[Anglo Box]], [[Woodrow Wilson]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Red-Fascism]]
* [[Red-Fascism]]
* [[Third Way]]
* [[Anglo Box]]


== References ==
== References ==

Latest revision as of 11:00, 21 August 2026

""Neo-conservatism is Trotskyism" — permanent revolution secularized: endless ideological war wearing different clothes.

From the streams

  • The Iraq coalition as factional project (TRUE RED PILL NEWS stream: France not on board, "freedom fries") — neocons as a network with its own eschatology, distinct from American interests.
  • The DeSantis fusion (MAJOR VICTORY | COOKING GROYPERS stream): "Anti-woke plus neoconservatism — that was DeSantis... bourgeois retirees who combined Christian nationalist anti-woke sentiment with neoconservative aggressive foreign military agendas." (Trump absorbed and transformed the brand after January '24.)
  • Trotskyism itself dismissed on the merits (FBI AFTER ME! stream): "We know what Trotskyism looks like. It's a dead end. I see nothing to debate about. Why should I be a Trotskyist? The burden is on you." And the bureaucracy question redirected: only the ML tradition (Mao's Cultural Revolution) developed a real answer to bureaucratic state machines — not the permanent-faction tradition.

See also

References