[Dumb_Ox]

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.

[Askel5]

Gosh it's good to see you. Trust all is well.

I didn't realize there was a "Leftism Revisited"! I hope it is an entirely new book ... I could use a K-L fix.