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File: b6d13d614e336d0⋯.jpg (8.82 KB, 202x316, 101:158, image40381.jpg)

 No.54284

Thoughts on this man? Have you read one of his books yet, or are you a homosexual?

 No.54302

File: 8657ba49f9e7da5⋯.jpg (27.37 KB, 324x499, 324:499, Liberty or Equality.jpg)

File: a6819004935df4c⋯.jpg (12.69 KB, 179x281, 179:281, procrustes at large.jpg)

File: 3eaee3d20383ae1⋯.pdf (150.37 KB, Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-L….pdf)

OP here.

First pic is the one book I've read of him. It's a bit like Democracy - The God that Failed in economically illiterate, but with some fascinating ideas and historical facts to make up for that. In fact, I stumbled over it thanks to the frequent citations Hoppe made of it in his work. Among other things, I learned the crucial differences between the Protestant and the Catholic mindset from it.

Second pic is what I'm reading now. Sadly, it cannot measure up to von Kuehnelt-Leddihns later work. What's good in it is great, but there's so much trash thrown around, it's hardly funny anymore. His criticism of capitalism and the "bourgeoisie" is superficial and not really worth reading, he's way too sentimental and nostalgic, and too sympathetic towards socialist thinkers and ideologies. Still a book worth picking up, but it requires a very critical eye and some patience, even more so than Liberty or Equality.

The file is one of his essays, if you want to get a taste of his work. What it might miss, to a certain degree, is von Kuehnelt-Leddihns impressive insight into the human psychology. His descriptions about that almost read like poetry, really.


 No.54341

i know that korwin likes him


 No.54348

>>54341

That explains half of what Korwin does, now that I think of it.


 No.54486

>>54348

what does it explain exactly?


 No.62053

OP here. Bumping this.

I've read Leftism Revisited, and it's brilliant. Probably his best book. He also sounds nicer and less deranged than in Procrustes, but his burns are still sick. There's nothing quite like saying that dictators in old colonies are eating the "fecal matter of the West" when they adopt Marxism.

He also has a unique theory on why Africans have a low IQ: Once they turn two, they get little affection and nursing, and so their brain development is retarded after that point. I haven't doublecked this claim of his.

That, and the chapter on the Nazis and Fascism, should be required lecture for the alt-right. He really drives the point home that the Nazis have the same hatred of the past, drive for sameness and identitarianism, amateurism, and envy that characterizes all leftist movements.




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