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""Kirk's text was not only a huge, 450-page distillation of the thinking
of 150 years of the intellectual right; it was also a relentless assault
on every left-wing panacea and error imaginable. The perfectibility of
man, contempt for tradition, political and economic leveling-these were,
in Kirk's view, the most prominent among post-1789 attacks on social
order. Liberalism, collectivism, utilitarianism, positivism, atomistic
individualism, leveling humanitarianism, pragmatism, socialism, ideology
("the science of idiocy," said John Adams)-these were some of Kirk's
targets. Moreover, at times he criticized capitalism and industrialism;
the automobile, for example, he labeled a "mechanical Jacobin." Kirk, in
short, left no stone unturned. Here was a full-scale challenge to
modernity." (from George Nash's The Conservative Intellectual Movement
in America Since 1945)
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