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I was going to subtitle this -- in honor of the much-admired David Horowitz -- "or, "How 'Former Radicals' Learned to love the Moderate Right"

As Thomas Molnar says "conservatives" are those who sit around counting their money.

One day, when I redo it, K-L's posts will be added to this particular A-List (with a Gramscian bent ...)

For now ...

Hot Wars Destroy Bodies; Cold Wars are Waged for Immortal Souls

Refreshing to read something other than "Bush good, Kerry bad".

Thoughtful stuff, this, and worth the effort.

Still and all, given the success of the left, be it old or new (New Left types rule in Europe now, and Bubba's clique was nothing but cleaned up Yippies and their apologists), one is left wondering what to do.

I mean on the individual level. Collectively, I don't think there's an answer to the crisis; have to let the disease run its course.

Thanks for posting this. I finished off von Kuehnelt-Leddihin's _Leftism Revisited_ a few weeks ago. I don't know whether it is a revision of _Leftism_ or a completely new book. I do know these passages were not included. Lots of depressing information on how American WWII foreign policy made the world safe for our "democratic" communist allies.

Here's von K-L on how revolutions happen, from his chapter on the French Revolution:

The process of decomposition and putrefaction always starts at the top--in the royal palace, the presidential mansion, among the intellectuals, the aristocracy, the wealthy, the clergy--and then gradually enmeshes the lower social layers. In the process, the powerful develop a sense of guilt coupled with a readiness to abdicate, to yield to expropriation, to submit to the loss of privileges--to commit suicide politically and economically. The ideological propaganda emanating from their own ranks prepares them more than sufficiently for this masochistic act.