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===Overview of Neoconservative views===
Historically, neoconservatives supported a militant [[anticommunism]], tolerated more [[social welfare]] spending than was sometimes acceptable to [[libertarian]]s and mainstream [[conservatives]], supported [[civil rights movement|civil equality]] for blacks and other [[minority|minorities]], and sympathized with a non-traditional foreign policy agenda that was less deferential to traditional conceptions of diplomacy and international law and less inclined to compromise principles even if that meant [[unilateralism|unilateral]] action. Indeed, domestic policy does not define neoconservatism — it is a movement founded on, and perpetuated by an aggressive approach to foreign policy, [[free trade]], opposition to
Broadly sympathetic to [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s idealistic goals to spread American ideals of government, economics, and culture abroad, they grew to reject his reliance on international organizations and treaties to accomplish these objectives. The movement's founder was Chicago professor [[Leo Strauss]] who started out as a [[Trotsky]]ist. Many of his followers took the same road as he, styling themselves first Trotskyists then liberals then neoconservatives, and retain the Trotskyist notion of starting anti-nationalist, pro-leftist wars across the world, what Trotsky called "the permanent revolution."
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