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Preface xxiii make. 3 I had tried, ever since the early 1960s, to get my story of the betrayal of the Old Right into print, but there were no periodicals open to this message. Particularly incensed at the Goldwater campaign of 1964, the first campaign dominated by the National Review Right, I could only air my views, very briefly, in the only extant libertarian periodical, the Los Angeles newsletter The Innovator; searching for an outlet for a longer piece, I could find only the obscure peace-Catholic quarterly Continuum. 4 After that, my political views were largely aired in my own periodicals: Left and Right, 1965–1968, edited by Leonard Liggio and myself, a vehicle for alliance with the New Left; the weekly and then monthly Libertarian Forum, 1969–1984, an expression of a self-conscious libertarian movement; and, for more scholarly articles, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, founded in 1977 as a publishing arm of the Center for Libertarian Studies and still continuing. Part of the analysis in the present manuscript appeared as my “The Foreign Policy of the Old Right.” 5 At about the same time the Betrayal was written, there also appeared a master’s essay along similar lines by the young libertarian historian Joseph R. Stromberg. 6 Of the scholarly work done since, one of the most valuable on the Old Right is the study of 3I had published my view of the Old Right and its fall in Ramparts, then the leading New Left periodical. Murray N. Rothbard, “Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal,” Ramparts 6, no. 11 (June 15, 1968): 48–52. 4Murray N. Rothbard, “The Transformation of the American Right,” Continuum 2 (Summer, 1964): 22–31. 5Journal of Libertarian Studies 2 (Winter, 1978): 85–96. The original version of this article was a paper delivered at a session on the Right at the 1972 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, a session organized by the brilliant Marxist historian Eugene D. Genovese. 6Joseph R. Stromberg, “The Cold War and the Transformation of the American Right: The Decline of Right-Wing Liberalism” (M.A. essay, Florida Atlantic University, 1971).
xxiv The Betrayal of the American Right Frank Chodorov by Charles Hamilton. 7 Also particularly valuable is Justus Doenecke’s study of the response of World War II isolationists to the emergence of the Cold War, down to 1954, and Felix Morley’s autobiography, particularly the last two chapters on his experience with Human Events. 8,9 Since the 1970s, The Betrayal of the American Right has remained dormant, although copies, some barely legible, have been circulating in samizdat among young libertarian scholars. Finally, the dramatic collapse of Communism and the Cold War in 1989, and the subsequent rethinking among both conservatives and libertarians, has recently aroused interest in the Betrayal. Study into the Old Right by Tom Fleming, editor of Chronicles, led me to dig out the manuscript, and the enthusiastic suggestion of Justin Raimondo, editor of the Libertarian Republican, inspired me to update the Betrayal and led directly to the present publication. As always, I am deeply grateful to Burt Blumert and to Lew Rockwell for their enthusiasm and help over the years, and with this publication. Murray N. Rothbard Las Vegas, 1991 7Charles H. Hamilton, “Introduction,” in Fugitive Writings: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov, Hamilton, ed. (Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Press, 1980), pp. 11–30. 8Justus D. Doenecke, Not to the Swift: The Old Isolationists in the Cold War Era (Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 1979). Also see Ronald Radosh, Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975). 9An especially valuable study done before the writing of the Betrayal is a doctoral dissertation on the 1950s libertarian movement by Eckard Vance Toy, Jr., even though it is almost exclusively based on the fortunately extensive papers and correspondence of Seattle industrialist James W. Clise. Toy is particularly good on the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and Spiritual Mobilization, although he neglects the William Volker Fund and does not concern himself with foreign policy. Eckard Vance Toy, Jr., “Ideology and Conflict in American Ultra- Conservatism, 1945–1960” (Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1965).
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