James Burnham:
(November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987).
American philosopher and political theorist.
He chaired the New York University Department of Philosophy.
His first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931). Burnham became a prominent Trotskyist activist in the 1930s. His most famous book, The Managerial Revolution (1941), speculated on the future of an increasingly proceduralist hence sclerotic society. A year before he wrote the book, he rejected Marxism and became an influential theorist of the political right as a leader of the American conservative movement. Burnham was an editor and a regular contributor to William F. Buckley’s conservative magazine National Review on a variety of topics. He rejected containment of the Soviet Union and called for the rollback of communism worldwide.
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
