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“In 1927 Jay Lovestone, leader of the Communist Party in America, defined American exceptionalism as the increasing strength of American capitalism, a strength which he said prevented Communist revolution”
America as an idea, as an ideology, is a distinctly leftist notion. Which is why we find the formerly anti-Stalinist leftist Lipset saying “the United States is a country organized around an ideology”. You can get the boy out of the Party, but you can’t always get the party out of the boy. His old habits of thought still surface from time to time.
Conservatism is a non ideology, an anti-ideology, rooted in the organic culture of a particular people. This was a theme repeated often by Russell Kirk, harking back to Edmund Burke. You want a country begun in ideology, look to Revolutionary France. Or to the Jacobin movements it inspired, including communism. But it has nothing to do with America and it’s founding. America was a nearly two hundred year old society that seceded from England. It didn’t reinvent itself. It didn’t organize itself around an idea. The founders built upon the self government and love of liberty that had long been part of the frontier society of the American colonials.