Billmon: Rootless Cosmopolitans

The Connecticut primary reveals that the center of gravity in the Democratic Party has moved . . . to the secular transnational professional class that was the dominant constituency in the 2004 presidential cycle.

Michael Barone
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
August 10, 2006

Consisting in part of cringing before foreign things and servility before bourgeois culture, rootless cosmopolitanism produces special dangers, because cosmopolitanism is the ideological banner of militant international reaction, the ideal weapon in its hands for the struggle against socialism and democracy.

F. Chernov
Bolshevik Magazine Op-Ed
March 1949

Through most of the 20th century, American exceptionalism has been the creed of both of our major parties . . . Among voters, transnational attitudes were espoused by only a very few, in the odd corners of university faculty clubs, investment-banking firm dining rooms and the councils of shop floor socialist intellectuals.

Michael Barone
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
August 10, 2006

National nihilism with its attitude towards the Great Russian people and the other peoples of our nation, time and again was linked in the minds of rootless cosmopolitans with bourgeois nationalism, which today is inseparably tied with the cosmopolitan ideology of the imperialist bourgeoisie.

F. Chernov
Bolshevik Magazine Op-Ed
March 1949