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An excerpt from his manifesto. He wasn’t a lib. That’s why they declared him a madman and mocked him. They didn’t want too much delving into his motivation.

“Leftism is a totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is
in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold. In part
this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism:
everything contrary to leftist beliefs represents Sin. More
importantly, leftism is a totalitarian force because of the
leftists’ drive for power. The leftist seeks to satisfy his need
for power through identification with a social movement
and he tries to go through the power process by helping
to pursue and attain the goals of the movement (see paragraph 83). But no matter how far the movement has
gone in attaining its goals the leftist is never satisfied, because his activism is a surrogate activity (see paragraph
41). That is, the leftist’s real motive is not to attain the ostensible goals of leftism; in reality he is motivated by the
sense of power he gets from struggling for and then reaching a social goal. [35] Consequently the leftist is never
satisfied with the goals he has already attained; his need
for the power process leads him always to pursue some
new goal. The leftist wants equal opportunities for minorities. When that is attained he insists on statistical equality of achievement by minorities. And as long as anyone
harbors in some corner of his mind a negative attitude
toward some minority, the leftist has to re-educated him.
And ethnic minorities are not enough; no one can be allowed to have a negative attitude toward homosexuals, disabled people, fat people, old people, ugly people, and on
and on and on. It’s not enough that the public should be
informed about the hazards of smoking; a warning has to
be stamped on every package of cigarettes. Then cigarette
advertising has to be restricted if not banned. The activists
will never be satisfied until tobacco is outlawed, and after
that it will be alcohol, then junk food, etc. Activists have
fought gross child abuse, which is reasonable. But now
they want to stop all spanking. When they have done that
they will want to ban something else they consider unwholesome, then another thing and then another. They will
never be satisfied until they have complete control over
all child rearing practices. And then they will move on to
another cause”