Partnership of convenience - Neoconservatism and the difficult defense of capitalism against the Left and the Right

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History - America, grade: Honors (Bestnote), Yale University, language: English, abstract: We being with a brief synopsis of the salient features of neoconservative thinking. This is essential for the subsequent discussion of the neoconservative perspective on different aspects of capitalism. The chronological focus will be mainly on the 1960s and 1970s during which neoconservative ideology and radical leftist counterculture simultaneously emerged. This parallelism was critical in shaping the intellectual development of neoconservatives. Some references will also be made to the 1980s which provided an environment strikingly different from the two preceding decades.