Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to
think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»
Not exact matches
but
think about it just a couple of examples of the top of my head — The French revolution and Russian
communism.
The answer, I
think, is to be found in another important volume
about communism: The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of
Communism in the Twentieth Century, by François Furet (see the discussion by Brian C. Anderson elsewhere in this issue).
You
think she is talking
about today and the consequences of the sexual revolution — after all this is the book's topic — but she ends up talking
about communism and the cold war, current dietary restrictions and food obsessions, and the historically prior widespread popular acceptance of smoking tobacco (primarily cigarettes).
Fowden's conceptual framework provides interesting perspectives for
thinking about why
communism could not come to the aid of the Soviet Empire to produce either a world empire or a successor commonwealth.
And it's not
about what christianity goes with that I am concerned
about — unless you
think that
communism goes with anything too.