HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mont Pelerin Society, Industrial Democracy, New Christian
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New right, mirror image of new left, alienated by ww2 political consensus and attempting to unite a diverse set of right-wing interests into a coherent social and political movement. The new right: fusionist conservatism, felt they had right to get involved in every aspect of social life (prohibition, against interracial. Laissez faire relations: wanted strong military + robust international presence, did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t spe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g o(cid:374) pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) goods (cid:271)ut spe(cid:374)t hea(cid:448)il(cid:455) o(cid:374) (cid:373)ilitar(cid:455) (hypocritical) Young americans for freedom (yaf): aim of getting their ideology and message on to college students, big part of it was barry goldwater. Libertarianism: government has right over social things like family. Friedrich hayek, the road of serfdom: cartoonised in reader(cid:859)s digest tweaked enough to go with situation with the new right, got him a job at the chicago school of economics. Neoconservatism: angered by new left anti police stance, mostly bothered with democratic party being the anti-war party.
