F. L. Cocozzelli

Commissar Conservatives (eBook, ePUB)

How Laissez-faire Libertarianism Is Disturbingly Similar to Communism

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Produktbeschreibung

Frank Cocozzelli is a progressive liberal who got tired of being called a Marxist. So he did some research, and guess what he found? Movement libertarian conservatism is the actual threat to capitalism and democracy. He eventually turned his findings into a book - this book - that not only refutes that old-time redbaiting but also seeks to help jump-start the journey to a better world. He says,

"...it is neither socialism nor communism that libertarian conservatives fear. Instead, their nightmare is the emergence of a better capitalism, one that is made fair and just through reform; one that is less prone to the tyranny of those only interested in pursuing reckless, unreasonable self-interest."

Here are a few of Cocozzelli's provocative points:

· What really frightens the Right is not Karl Marx but a better-understood Adam Smith.

· What some people mistakenly think of as "the center" is actually a bundle of discredited laissez-faire economic theory.

· The path to authoritarianism does not run through progressive liberal economics but through libertarian conservatism.

· What freedom means to many libertarian conservatives is the freedom to oppress others.

· Today's libertarian conservatism has much in common with the worst of communist regimes because it embraces Austrian School economics and the disturbing teachings of Dark Enlightenment ideology.

· Such pressing matters as economic inequality, climate change, and voter suppression may be seen as spokes that extend from the hub of libertarian conservatism. Expose and disrupt the hub, and the spokes will collapse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Progressive Works Publishing, LLC.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781737412618
• Artikelnr.: 67248801

Autorenporträt

F. L. Cocozzelli is an attorney in private practice who lives in New York City. He served as executive director of the Committee for the Advancement of Stem Cell Research (2002-2006), a political action committee which advocated for political candidates and policies that supported embryonic stem cell research. From 2006 through 2008, he served as an advisor to the 527 organization StemPAC.The author also served as an Associate Director (2006-2010) for the think tank Institute for Progressive Christianity (IPC). During this time he co-authored two IPC White Papers: "Reclaiming Capitalism Through Principles of Distributive Justice" and "How Neoconservatives and the Religious Right Have Joined Forces to Fight Stem Cell Research" (co-authored with Eve Herold). His published articles include "How Roman Catholic Neocons Peddle Natural Law into Debates about Life and Death," in The Public Eye Magazine, summer 2008, Volume 23, Number 2; and "Saving Monsignor Ryan: Refuting the Myths of Neoconservative Roman Catholic Economics" in The Public Eye Magazine, Winter 2008, Volume 23, Number 4.Frank contributed a chapter ("Take It from a Stem Cell Catholic") to the book Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America (edited by Frederick Clarkson, 2008). His work has been cited as source material for several books, including The Neo-Catholics: Implementing Christian Nationalism in America (author, Betty Clermont, 2009); The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control (author, Steven Hassan, 2019); and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (author, Craig Unger, 2021). Mr. Cocozzelli was also a featured writer at the website Talk2Action (2006-2017) where he regularly wrote about religious freedom, the Christian Right (particularly Catholicism), neoconservatism, and economics. Several of his posts have been printed and reprinted on websites including AlterNet, the Roosevelt Institute, and Religious Dispatches.