10 Facts About Neoconservative

Neoconservative label was used by Irving Kristol in his 1979 article "Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed 'Neoconservative'".

Neoconservative's ideas have been influential since the 1950s, when he co-founded and edited the magazine Encounter.

Neoconservative's solution was a restoration of the vital ideas and faith that in the past had sustained the moral purpose of the West.

Neoconservative later served the Reagan Administration as Ambassador to the United Nations.

Neoconservative suggested that in some countries democracy was not tenable and the United States had a choice between endorsing authoritarian governments, which might evolve into democracies, or Marxist–Leninist regimes, which she argued had never been ended once they achieved totalitarian control.

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Neoconservative further accused the Carter administration of a "double standard" and of never having applied its rhetoric on the necessity of liberalization to communist governments.

Neoconservative foreign policy is a descendant of so-called Wilsonian idealism.

Neoconservative questioned the sincerity of neoconservative interest in exporting democracy and freedom, saying: "Neoconservatism in foreign policy is best described as unilateral bellicosity cloaked in the utopian rhetoric of freedom and democracy" as well as social welfare policy.

Neoconservative ideology stresses that while free markets do provide material goods in an efficient way, they lack the moral guidance human beings need to fulfill their needs.

Neoconservative has argued that domestic equality and the exportability of democracy are points of contention between them.