David Horowitz

David Horowitz (born the January 10th 1939) is an American writer, former activist and figure of the new American left during the years 1960. It is today in favor of the Néo-conservatives, and leader-writer with the preserving magazines NewsMax, Frontpage and with the liberal magazine Salon.com.

Biography

His/her parents were teachers of New York, Communiste S American which raised it in the worship of Stalin. David Horowitz is graduate Université of Columbia and is titular of a control of English literature of the the University of California to Berkeley.

After the report/ratio of Nikita Khrouchtchev on the crimes of Joseph Stalin, Horowitz took part in the formation of the movement of the new left in rupture with the Communist party of the United States of America. In California, Horowitz became one to support well-known Marxiste of all the demonstrations gauchists of the Sixties and Seventies. He undertook to write a Marxist interpretation of the history, was the editor of the radical magazine “Ramparts” and an active support of the Black Panthers and their leader Huey Newton.

In the middle of the Seventies, Horowitz crossed one period of major doubt on the ideas, the motivations and the tactics employed by the American left in particular after the murder, in 1974, of one as of his/her very close friends, Betty Van Patter, allotted to Black Panthers.

With the passing of years, Horowitz moved away from the left to join the center then the line, in particular after having made the assessment of the consequences of the American withdrawal of the Vietnam and the crisis of the pandemia of the AIDS in the middle of the Eighties. He is regarded today as one of lawyers of the preserving and néo-preserving thought.

Its autobiography entitled “Radical Sound, and Left Illusions” reconsiders its years of youth and its disillusions. Catalogued like néo-conservative, Horowitz is the first to reject this label.

It is savage today opposing affirmative action which it regards as racist. It is also one of the authors of “Academic Bill off Rights”, manifest in eight points denouncing the biaisiée influence and gauchist of teaching in the universities and exclusion and ostracism against the preserving teachers or republican S.

Nevertheless, in favor of the rights of the gay S without being favorable to the Homosexual marriage, it criticizes the Republican party not to be concerned with rights of the homosexual community whereas it notes that in 2000, George W. Bush had received more votes of voters of this community than of those of blacks or Jews which it always tries to reconcile.

Works

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