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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: Leftism: From De Sade and Marx to Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: Leftism: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse Study Guide, c. 1990-2012 Hitler and Marcuse Study Guide, c. 1990-2012
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ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN: LEFTISM: FROM
DE SADE AND MARX TO HITLER AND MARCUSE
STUDY GUIDE, c. 1990-2014
Steven Alan Samson
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Dedication: To the Noble Memory of Armand Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouërie

Courageous Fighter for Liberty
Ardent Admirer of America
Bitter Foe of the Jacobins
Friend of George Washington
Member of the Order of the Cincinnati

INTRODUCTION
Outline

A. LEFTIST IDEOLOGIES ARE COMPETITORS, NOT ENEMIES (9-12)
1. The Distinction
2. Semantic Confusion
a. American ideological prejudices
3. Ideologies Are Nothing New in America
a. Nascent United States were in the throes of warring ideologies
4. American Intervention in World Affairs
a. Great Euro-American misunderstanding
1) Lack of self-knowledge
2) Misinformation, ignorance
3) Deficient historical sense
4) Differing folklores
5. Books Double Purpose
6. Author’s Starting Point
a. Personal liberty
7. Unwarranted Identification of Democracy with Liberty
8. Defeats for Liberty
a. Even Burke welcomed the French Revolution
b. Disappointments of “progressives”
9. Democratic Evolution towards Nonviolent Slavery
a. Roots of the evil are all in 1789
1) Jacobin Cap as the symbol of iniquity
2) The heresy-denial of personality and liberty
3) Its manifestations
10. Purpose of the Book

 

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