Leftism From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 1974

Leftism From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

This is a scarce and expensive book with only most copies on Abebooks selling for $175+ and the cheapest $75.

This sweeping study of the Left ranges across the centuries to show the links between the obscenities of de Sade, the revolutionary mystique of Marcuse - and the brutalities of Stalin, Hitler and Mao. The leftist ideologies dominating or threatening the modern world are competitors rather than enemies.

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn gives us in Leftism a remarkable defense of classical liberal and libertarian thought, based on his enormous learning in the twenty languages he could read. Kuehnelt-Leddihn, an Austrian aristocrat, became in his long career after World War I a historian and world traveler. Kuehnelt-Leddihn saw a fundamental opposition between democracy and liberty. The Left seeks to eradicate all distinctions, and to do so it must suppress liberty. Democracy is not libertys friend, but rather its enemy, because it opposes efforts by individuals to set themselves above the masses. From this perspective, Kuehnelt-Leddihn conducts us through the history of the West. He stresses the rejection of democracy by Plato and Aristotle.

Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket.  653 pages

Book Condition: Fairly good. Dust jacket is covered in cellophane and there are some dust/age marks on the outside of the pages top and right.

Edition: Published by Arlington House, 1974

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