Liberal Facism

[Simon_Templar]

I've been reading the book "Liberal Facism". I wanted to recommend it to anyone with the time or the inclination. This book is brilliant and soooo necessary.

It lays out the true history and heretige of the liberal/progressive movement in detail and shows the development of ideas that has lead us to where we are today.

It is an eye opening look at the real political/social history of the left.

The words "must read" come to mind, and if it were up to me, this book would be a part of the core curriculum at every highschool.

 

[Izdaari Eristikon]

I've been reading the book "Liberal Facism". I wanted to recommend it to anyone with the time or the inclination. This book is brilliant and soooo necessary.

It lays out the true history and heretige of the liberal/progressive movement in detail and shows the development of ideas that has lead us to where we are today.

It is an eye opening look at the real political/social history of the left.

The words "must read" come to mind, and if it were up to me, this book would be a part of the core curriculum at every highschool.

Jonah Goldberg, right? It's on my list. It's not at the top of the list because I'm already pretty familiar with the subject, thanks to the work of James Burnham, Eric Voegelin, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and Thomas Sowell. But I'd like to learn more when I have time.

"It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian because, defying the divine diversity of the universe, these ideologies want to convert us by force to sameness -- sameness being the brother of equality. The leftist vision enjoins uniformity: the nation with one leader, one party, one race, one language, one class, one type of school, one law, one custom, one level of income, and so forth. Since nature provides diversity, this deadening sameness can be achieved only by brute force, by leveling, enforced assimilation, exile, genocide. All forms of totalitarianism, all leftist ideologies, reaching their culmination in the French, Russian, and German Revolutions, have gone that way -- with the aid of guillotine, gallows, gas chambers, and Gulag." The Principles of The Portland Declaration (Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, quoted from Wikipedia)

 

[Simon_Templar]

great quote