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In LEFTISM: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, 1974, Professor Kuehnelt-Leddihn details the natural progression of leftism from The French Revolution to Socialism to Communism to Marxism to Fascist Nationalism to National Socialism to Socialist Racism to what he calls "False Liberalism" - modern American liberalism.
Some interesting tidbits:
The original myth that the Nazis were considered to be on the right was that they were misplaced on the right in the Reichstag (pg. 37).
"One need only to read the pertinent passages about Italian fascism in the very interesting diaries of Victor Serge, a dissident Russian Communist, to understand the deep and lasting connection between the national and international leftist ideologies, socialism-communism and fascism." (pg. 159) "At heart Mussolini was always a Socialist." (pg. 161) "Dr. Goebbels asked in 1932: 'Where would we take the moral right from to fight the idea of the proletarian struggle between the classes, if the bourgeois class-state were not first destroyed and replaced by a new Socialist structure of German community?'" (pg. 175) "The leftist character of Nazism was also apparent in its attitude towards Christianity." (pg. 175)
"The economic order under the Nazis, indeed, was Socialistic, also from an economic point of view, because in a totalitarian state the factory owner or banker no longer holds genuine property. He is merely a steward, the tolerated representative of an almighty government which can expropriate him at the drop of a hat. Not by accident was the Nazi flag the red banner." (pg. 177)
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was an Austrian born in 1909. He read 20 languages and spoke 8. He has a M.A in Economics and a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Budapest. He went to England in 1935, so he observed first-hand many of the events he writes about. He was head of the History Department in St. Peter's College, Jersey City (1938-1943) and lecturer in Japanese at Fordham University. He visited the USSR as early as 1930-1931, so he observed events there first hand.
Some interesting tidbits:
The original myth that the Nazis were considered to be on the right was that they were misplaced on the right in the Reichstag (pg. 37).
"One need only to read the pertinent passages about Italian fascism in the very interesting diaries of Victor Serge, a dissident Russian Communist, to understand the deep and lasting connection between the national and international leftist ideologies, socialism-communism and fascism." (pg. 159) "At heart Mussolini was always a Socialist." (pg. 161) "Dr. Goebbels asked in 1932: 'Where would we take the moral right from to fight the idea of the proletarian struggle between the classes, if the bourgeois class-state were not first destroyed and replaced by a new Socialist structure of German community?'" (pg. 175) "The leftist character of Nazism was also apparent in its attitude towards Christianity." (pg. 175)
"The economic order under the Nazis, indeed, was Socialistic, also from an economic point of view, because in a totalitarian state the factory owner or banker no longer holds genuine property. He is merely a steward, the tolerated representative of an almighty government which can expropriate him at the drop of a hat. Not by accident was the Nazi flag the red banner." (pg. 177)
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was an Austrian born in 1909. He read 20 languages and spoke 8. He has a M.A in Economics and a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Budapest. He went to England in 1935, so he observed first-hand many of the events he writes about. He was head of the History Department in St. Peter's College, Jersey City (1938-1943) and lecturer in Japanese at Fordham University. He visited the USSR as early as 1930-1931, so he observed events there first hand.