# 2 of 2 - ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN - INSIGHTS INTO LEFTISM

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

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOGGER - GEORGE KUBECK, MON. JAN. 20, 2020

 

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

 

Chapter 17, Another Leftist War, 256-294

    Berlin - as well as Prague - could hardly have fallen to the Americans. Under General Patton, they had advanced as far as Pilsen when ordered back.  In accord with leftist wishes, all important sites in Eastern and Central Europe were handed over to the Soviets leaving the West a mere toehold on the Continent....

 

    But the American Left agitated for a constitutional arrangement [in Germany] that would give its forces room to flourish. Had not Engels designated a democratic republic as the form of government most conducive to the victory of Marxism....

 

    Leftist forces sowed unrest almost everywhere in the world. Working through the occupation authorities (where the saner military were unable to interfere), they conducted a witch-hunt against monarchist in Austria (thus continuing brown policies). They (mainly the British Labor government) also prevented the return o the South Tyrol to Austria. Self-determination was desirable only, if seemed, if it benefited leftist causes.  ...

 

    Leftist control of foreign policy was apparent everywhere. UNRRA, an American organization designed to aid "displaced" persons, repeatedly demonstrated pro-communist proclivities. Fiorello La Guardia, who directed its activities, was strongly inclined to the left....

 

    The leftist mind is driven by two conflicting characteristics - an impractical utopian idealism and a lack of a sense of honor. As a rule, idealism and honor are joined. Don Quixote was not practical, but he was a man of honor: Sancho Panza scoffed at honor, but he was a realist. The typical leftist is a dreamer without honor, and that is a troubling combination.

 

    In this respect, the advice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Pius XII come to mind. In various letters, the President tried to convince the Pope that he ought to face facts and realize that his picture of the Soviet Union was obsolete, no longer valid; the USSR was, under Stalin, a demonstrably liberal democracy....

 

    More blunders [for the U.S.A.] were made in the succeeding years, the failure of nerve during the Hungarian Revolution; the bungling that was involved in the Suez crisis; the disaster at the Bay of Pigs. .. Perhaps was the horrible error perpetrated in Vietnam in the early days of that tragic war. In 1963, LEFTIST propaganda portrayed Ngo Dinh Diem as "Roman Catholic dictator" oppressing benign Buddhist monks. [Diem was deliberately assassinated.] ...

 

    But the leftists, propelled by malicious impulses, have left their imprint on a troubled world. The negative, the blinding effects of leftism even in its modern form, derive mainly from envy and jealousy,the dynamic forces of the Left. This is the dynamic element that links the whole sequence of revolution from 1789 to 1917 and 1933. Envy and jealousy can dominate not only internal politics but, even more profoundly, foreign affairs...,

 

    Today, world conflicts take place on several levels. The time of the old-fashioned cabinet wars is over, war has become total, partly because technology has produced staggering means of destruction, partly because of the withering away of religion, enabling totalitarian ideologies, capable of mobilizing the masses and fanaticing pragmatists, to fill the vacuum....the words of Rivarol "Politics is like the Sphinx: It devours all those who cannot solve its riddles."

George H. Kubeck

P.S. Our State Department needs new American ideas. Example, from our Founding Fathers, the existence of a communist Cuba in the Western Hemisphere would have been unthinkable.