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==Origin==

==Origin==

[[Image:Kris.gif|thumb|right|Irving Kristol was dubbed by many as "the Godfather" of Neo-conservatism]]

[[Image:Kris.gif|thumb|right|Irving Kristol was dubbed by many as "the Godfather" of Neo-conservatism]]

Neo-conservatism was developed by a group of largely Jewish intellectuals graduated from the City College of New York in the late 1930's, a group that includes [[Irving Kristol]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Nathan Glazer]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Neoconservative-Revolution-Jewish-Intellectuals-Shaping/dp/0521836565/ref=sr_1_3/102-2076504-6567320?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175142752&sr=8-3 The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, Murray Friedman, 2005]</ref>  Many of this group came to despise the counterculture of the 1960's and what they felt was a growing "anti-Americanism" among many baby boomers.  And during the [[cold war]] era, many of them "came to realize that real existing socialism had become a monstrosity of unintended consequences that completely undermined the idealistic goals it espoused".<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/neo.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=789ca3bQ2F@tVK@FQ27Q5C(LQ27Q271Q25@Q25GGQ3B@GQ25@Dh@Q24aQ3EaQ3Dg4V@4VQ27n-1Q24W After Neoconservatism, FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, February 19, 2006]</ref>  Kristol described a neoconservative as a '''"liberal mugged by reality"'''. The development of neo-conservatism was strongly influenced by the work of German philosopher [[Leo Strauss]] and Marxist theorist [[Leon Trotsky]].  Irving Kristol himself was once a member of the [[4th international]].

Neo-conservatism was developed by a group of largely Jewish intellectuals graduated from the City College of New York in the late 1930's, a group that includes [[Irving Kristol]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Nathan Glazer]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Neoconservative-Revolution-Jewish-Intellectuals-Shaping/dp/0521836565/ref=sr_1_3/102-2076504-6567320?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175142752&sr=8-3 The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, Murray Friedman, 2005]</ref>  Many of this group came to despise the counterculture of the 1960's and what they felt was a growing "anti-Americanism" among many baby boomers.  And during the [[cold war]] era, many of them came to realize the evil of the Stalinist regime.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/neo.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=789ca3bQ2F@tVK@FQ27Q5C(LQ27Q271Q25@Q25GGQ3B@GQ25@Dh@Q24aQ3EaQ3Dg4V@4VQ27n-1Q24W After Neoconservatism, FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, February 19, 2006]</ref>  Kristol described a neoconservative as a '''"liberal mugged by reality"'''. The development of neo-conservatism was strongly influenced by the work of German philosopher [[Leo Strauss]] and Marxist theorist [[Leon Trotsky]].  Irving Kristol himself was once a member of the [[4th international]].

== Publications ==

== Publications ==