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Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried

Paul Edward Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient. He is an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute. Image File history File links Paul_gottfried. ... Elizabethtown College is a small liberal-arts college located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster County. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a foundation, based in Auburn, Alabama, dedicated to research on economics and political economy. ...


He is the author of numerous books and articles in several languages on intellectual history, paleoconservatism, ancient historiography, and political theory. Gottfried has also been a close friend of important political and intellectual figures: Richard Nixon, Pat Buchanan, John Lukacs, Christopher Lasch, Robert Nisbet, and Murray Rothbard. He is now writing his memoirs that will deal with his "encounters" with these and other personalities. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Historiography is a term with multiple meanings that has changed with time, place and observer, and is thus resistant to a single encompassing meaning. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. ... John Lukacs (born 31 January 1924 in Budapest his name spelled Lukács) is a Hungarian-born historian who has written more than twenty-five books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and The New Republic. ... Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932, Omaha, Nebraska - February 14, 1994, Pittsford, New York) was a well-known American historian and social critic. ... Robert Nisbet (1962- ) is a prolific author and an acknowledged expert on the subject of workplace bullying. ... Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an influential American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism. ...


Much of his historical-theoretical contributions have sought to demonstrate the obsolescence of inherited political and ideological distinctions. This theme runs through his recent trilogy, tracing the rise and expansion of the democratic managerial state, and has inspired an upcoming book, in press with Macmillan, on "value conservatism." Unlike others on the intellectual Right, Gottfried has often treated culture and morality in contemporary Western societies as reflecting the reach of political administration. He has focused on the democratic welfare state as a force of change because of its power to recode social behavior and to break down communities. What has made this process especially effective has been the identification of social engineering with popular consent and the advance of democratic pluralism.


Many of Gottfried's political columns feature sarcastic comments about neoconservatives, whom he charges with global democratic idolatry and irresponsible name-calling. Gottfried has also accused particular neoconservatives of having kept him from an endowed professorship at The Catholic University of America, and he has made references to this hostile act in commentaries concerning the decline of academic freedom. He is pessimistic about the possibility of maintaining free institutions in the face of the self-obliteration of the bourgeois society that created them. [1][2] The Catholic University of America (abbreviated CUA), located in Washington, D.C., is unique as the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and as the only higher education institution founded by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. ...

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Books

  • Conservative Millenarians: The Romantic Experience in Bavaria, Fordham University Press 1979 ISBN 0-8232-0982-8
  • The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, Northern Illinois Univ Press 1986 ISBN 0-87580-114-5
  • The Conservative Movement (1988, second edition 1992)
  • After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-08982-5
  • Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory (Contributions in Political Science), Greenwood Press 1990 ISBN 0-313-27209-3
  • Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy, University of Missouri Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8262-1417-7
  • The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium, University of Missouri Press, 2005 ISBN 0-8262-1597-1
  • Baseless Conservatism: Making Sense of the American Right (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)

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The Strange Transformation of Marxism (1790 words)
Gottfried this shift from economics to culture means the death of Marxism, because Marxism is an economic theory.
Gottfried writes, that the traditional European Marxist parties, when they had most of the votes of their traditional electorate, never attempted to change the traditional, almost Victorian social and moral behaviour of their blue-collar voters.
Gottfried’s book explains how this agenda came into being and how those who shaped it brought their ideas from Europe to America in the 1930s and 40s and then back again in the 1960s and 70s.
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