Moreover, Rod, I really think you need to practice what you preach a bit more. How you can tell me that I shouldn't dismiss Marxists out of hand when they have something useful to say, while your book serves as one long ad hominem against two dimensional, greedy, "mainstream conservatives" is really quite beyond me.

Oh an Mitch, I know you say it in jest, but I don't understand why we want to be uniters rather than dividers. One of these days someone is going to have to explain to me why "unity" is an inherently moral and desirable state of being. The cult of unity has inflicted more pain and suffering on decent people than perhaps any other fixation (I am writing a book on fascism, after all). One of the leftish sensibilities on display in Rod's book is its emphasis on organic holism — the idea that all good things must go together and that religion, politics, economics, aesthetics must all click into a state of synchronicity. Conservatism, in my book, is a partial philosophy of life.