# 1 OF 2 - ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN INSIGHTS INTO LEFTISM!

# 1 OF 2 -ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN INSIGHTS INTO LEFTISM!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOGGER - GEORGE KUBECK, SAT. JAN. 18, 2020

 

LEFTISM REVISITED - FROM DE SADE AND MARC TO HITLER AND POL POT, REGNERY GATEWAY, WASHINGTON , D.C. 1990, EXCERPTS

 

Chapter 16, Leftism goes from War to War, 217-255

 

    The study of foreign history and geography is weak in American as well as in British schools. As already mentioned, in American schools European history is often taught as "French history with frills."...

There is another fateful shortcoming in conservative thought. Whereas leftist in the United States have always been internationally oriented, American conservatives have tended to nationalistic, introspective, and isolationist....

 

    Leftist soil also nurtured the first growth of anti-intellectualism in the United States. It hangs together, and reaches out to the early years of the nation when attitudes were slightly different. In his remarks on foreign countries, for instance, Jefferson proved he was a fanatic nationalist and, as Professor Richard Hofstadter so convincingly demonstrated, in the United States anti-intellectualism goes hand-in-hand with democracy. In America, moreover, intellectuality was originally considered an aristocratic vice.... the early democratic element of the United States, the frontiersmen, had neither the time nor disposition to scan foreign horizon....

 

    Another factor that split American society was the international character of America's Socialism as against protectionist of the American manufacturer. Matters worsened with the continuous flow of new ideologies imported into America by immigrants from the continent these new Weltanschauungen. strongly political and with an extremist or radical bias ran counter to many facets of "Americanism"and, to a large extent, of American folklore...

 

    By the early twentieth century the internationally minded forces in America were Marxist Left, the anarchist Left , the moderate, unorthodox left - radical democrats, suffragettes, Single Taxers, the Catholic Church (with all sorts of metal reservations) - and a great part of American Jewry. And the more these groups cast glances, Latin America, and Asia, the stiffer the average solid "conservative' American became in his retrospective parochialism.... Thus, not surprisingly, American foreign policy followed a leftist pattern...

 

    In 1938 the State Department was not yet the happy hunting ground of the leftists, but their critique of it was increasing by leaps and bounds. As a result a leftist administration started a series of successive purges that increasingly gave the State Department a leftist character...

 

    During the crucial years from 1933 to 1953, Democratic administrations appointed many leftist professors, such as William E. Dodd, as well as leftist millionaires of the Joseph E. Davis type. These appointees  driven by their missionary zeal and their fatal vanity, fortunately often gave voice in print to their impressions, actions, and reactions - marvelous revelations of the monumental ignorance of the Left in the historic field of international relations....

 

    The American Left spent the 1920s busily building up its positions. It strengthened its various camps intellectually, attained an ever-increasing control over education and the arts, and slowly gained a monopoly in fashioning public opinion on foreign issues...

 

George H. Kubeck

 

P.S.

The Impeachment hearings next week could open the door for all Americans to check the inspiring writings of Alexander Hamilton and our Founding Fathers. What did they think of Leftism?