His section on "Leftism in History" leaves the reader gasping and happily cognizant of his own unawareness of political history. The positive spin I put on my own inadequacy regarding my knowledge of Leftist history is thoroughly compensated by my having the privilege of reading chapters 5 through 14 in which Kuehnelt-Leddihn dissects, (or rather chews on seemingly endlessly) the historic origins of Leftist non-mind-sense, nascent America, the French Revolution (key to the grand theory), the trek from democracy to romantic socialism, scientific (international) socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Hitlerism, (and little understood by youth), socialist racism.
Leddihn calls himself an "extreme rightist arch-liberal." We understand his self-description more fully as we develop along with him the sorry state of the raucous mind of the Leftist. The French Revolution typifies (grandiloquently) the Left at its best. The influence of de Sade and materialism is made clear as we find the French influence on the Utopians, Marx, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and I suspect, to make current, (and further analysis is needed of which I am currently not capable of rendering), the mindset of the Neoconservative of today.
Fonte: Dr. Enrico Peppe, IC's Top 25 Philosophical and Ideological Conservative Books
