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    1. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      James Burnham and Arthur Koestler in Berlin, 1950, “that traumatic synecdoche of the Cold War,” as Burnham named it. Burnham was a member of the OPC, a military intelligence psy-op agency. 1/pic.twitter.com/m35zzSgEHg

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    2. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      Koestler's wife said "Burnham looks very sweet and gentle... but he is much less scrupulous about means than" her husband. Burnham was the ultimate cold war hardliner. 2/pic.twitter.com/HvpLJGGiqX

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    3. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      Burnham co-founded a CIA front organization of anti-communist intellectuals in Europe. He wanted an "anti-communist united front," excluding only outright totalitarians (whether Fascists of Communists). Koestler, of course, was a monster. 3/pic.twitter.com/Hzd9rrxVZw

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    4. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      Burnham allegedly had a role in planning the Iran coup that removed Mossadegh. 4/

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    5. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      He became frustrated with the CIA's liberal efforts to placate the anti-communist left; his colleagues found him “too hard line” and even “fascist.” "You cannot have an anti-Communist apparatus without anti-Communists,” Burnham retorted. 5/pic.twitter.com/M0YYc6LljQ

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    6. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      Burnham left the OPC in 1952. In 1953 he quit his positions at NYU and on the Partisan Review editorial board (before he was pushed). In 1955 he co-founded National Review. Some of NR's staff never shook the feeling he was a CIA plant to *neuter* the conservative movement. 6/6pic.twitter.com/Pnq15sEjlO

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    7. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      One thing about the OPC is that it stood for the Office of Policy Coordination, which is the sort of extreme banality you'd think would have to be satire.

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    8. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 10 Feb 2021

      George Orwell's "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" is well-known and tough. (Some of Burnham's NR rivals admired parts of it). But no one seems to talk about how Orwell cribbed the setting to 1984 straight from The Managerial Revolution.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Feb 2021
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      Robert Nisbit talked about this in a book of essays on 1984 edited by Irving Howe

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        2. Joshua Tait‏ @Joshua_A_Tait 11 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Irving Howe has a blistering essay on Burnham in NYRB - Bourbon on the Rocks.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Feb 2021
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          Yeah, some bad blood going back to Burnham's break with Trotsky.

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