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Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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have been published on five continents and in twenty-one countries. IntroductionRead more at location 69

Note: obiettivo: dissipare gli equivoci tra europei e americani l errore: identificare democrazia e libertà la confusione ha minato la politica estera usa premesa: cristiano libertario e antidemocratico poli: liberalismo e democrazia di massa... l uomo pecora e l uomo a immagine di dioINTRO@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Edit

Note: obiettivo: dissipare gli equivoci tra europei e americani l errore: identificare democrazia e libertà la confusione ha minato la politica estera usa premesa: cristiano libertario e antidemocratico poli: liberalismo e democrazia di massa... l uomo pecora e l uomo a immagine di dio Edit

The purpose of this book is to show the character of leftism and to what extent and in what way the vast majority of the leftist ideologies now dominating or threatening most of the modern world are competitors rather than enemies.Read more at location 70

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competitors rather than enemies.Read more at location 71

Note: LE MOLTE SINISTRE... COMPETOTORI NN NEMICI. SINISTRA: SOCIALISMO COMUNISMO FASCISMO DEMOCRAZIA Edit

In the political field today this distinction, unfortunately, is less obvious and largely obscured by a confusion in semantics.Read more at location 73

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Nor do we subscribe to the opinion so dear to certain “conservatives” that simply equates leftism and ideology.Read more at location 81

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I am a Christian: I am emphatically not a democrat but a devotee to the cause of personal liberty. I would thoroughly subscribe to the words of Alexis de Tocqueville when he wrote, “Despotism appears to me particularly to be dreaded in democratic ages.Read more at location 104

Note: DICHIARAZIONE Edit

It is precisely the unwarranted identification of democracy with liberty which has caused a great many of the recurrent tragedies of American foreign policyRead more at location 109

Note: DEMOCRAZIA E POLITICA ESTERA Edit

Even Burke welcomed the French Revolution in the beginning. Eminent Americans praised it. But it all ended in a forest of guillotines. Mr. Woodrow Wilson enthusiastically welcomed Alexander Kerensky’s government which was to make Russia “fit for a league of honor.”3 But how long did it last? The Weimar Republic, the near-republican Italian monarchy, the Spanish republic, the “decolonized” free nations from Haiti to Tanzania, from North Vietnam to Indonesia, Latin America from Santo Domingo to Buenos Aires—all have been grievous disappointments to “progressive” Americans, all terminating in dictatorships, civil wars, crowded jails, confiscated newspapers, gallows and firing squads, one-party tyrannies, sequestrations, nationalizations, “social engineering.”Read more at location 113

Note: INGANNI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA Edit

Note: LE GRANDI DELUSIONI DELLA DEMO Edit

Yet beyond these obvious failures, besides the brutal and open elimination of liberty and decency, there is also—so clearly foreseen by de Tocqueville—the democratic evolution towards nonviolent slaveryRead more at location 119

Note: NONVIOLENT SLAVERY Edit

One should not be surprised about this, because the roots of the evil are historically-genetically the same all over the Western World. The fatal year is 1789, and the symbol of iniquity is the Jacobin Cap. Its heresy is the denial of personality and of personal liberty. Its concrete realizations are Jacobin mass democracy, all forms of national collectivism and statism, Marxism producing socialism and communism, fascism, and national socialism, leftism in all its modern guisesRead more at location 121

Note: L ANNO FATALE Edit

The issue is between man created in the image of God and the termite in a human guise. It is in defense of man and in opposition to the false teachings which want to lower man to the status of an insect that this book has been written.Read more at location 125

Note: CONCEZIONI DELL UOMO Edit

this book has been written. Part I The Leftist Mind ChapterRead more at location 128

Note: istinto comunitario: gregge conformismo il nemico... omosessualità istinto elitario: diversità come valore... curiosità x il diverso... viaggiare mangiare (cfr animali)... voglia di cambiare... romanticismo la modernità favorisce il gregge l impr. pol che punta sull eguaglianza favorisce l ist. del gregge niet. e bourk: dietro i gregge: complesso d inferiorità che produce odio e invidia l invidioso con il complesso d inferiorità commette crimini in cui non cade lo sprezzante che si sente superiore fonti dell invidia: gioco a somma zero... il sospetto che l altro si senta superiore sull invidia l imprenditoria di sinistra è la più attiva Edit