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Im Stilbruch
Das Kulturmagazin “Stilbruch” des rbb berichtet über den Mann, der nicht mehr links ist:
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Sehr geehrter Herr Fleischhauer!
Bei der Lektüre Ihres interessanten Buches sind mir zwei Autoren eingefallen. Vielleicht interessiert es Sie.
Einmal René Girard, “Ich sah den Satan vom Himmel fallen wie einen Blitz”, Hanser 2002, im Kapitel 13, S.202 “Die moderne Sorge um die Opfer”.
Dann Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “Leftism”, Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle NY, 1974. - Er hat in seinen vielen kulturkritischen Abhandlungen mit unwahrscheinlich reichhaltigen Quellenangaben immer wieder die ideologischen Strömungen analysiert. Ich hänge noch die Klappentexte zum obengenannten Werk an.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
P. Franz Solan Nüßlein
Im Klappentext heißt es: “This sweeping study of the Left ranges across the centuries to show the links between the obscenities of de Sade, the revolutionary mystique of Marcuse — and the brutalities of Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Its purpose, writes the author, “is to show the character of leftism and to what extent and in what way the vast majority of the leftist ideologies now dominating or threatening most of the modern world are competitors rather than enemies.”
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles, challenges many a received idea in this landmark book. He makes a powerful case, for example, that Hitlerism was actually a movement of the Left, not the Right. His dissections of democracy, socialism, monarchy and fascism will provoke thoughtful readers to reexamine many ideas they have taken for granted. Not a creator of systems, much less an ideologue, Dr. Kuehnelt-Leddihn is that rarity: an unfettered mind not afraid to think the unthinkable. Not for the conventional, this major book will stimulate any mind that is willing to entertain a fresh idea.
Kuehnelt-Leddihn writes as a Christian who is “emphatically not a democrat but a devotee to the cause of personal liberty.” His treatment of fascism shatters many myths. “At heart Mussolini was always a Socialist,” he writes. “Hitler, on the other hand, had never formally belonged to the Socialist party, although he had drunk from almost the same ideological sources. His Weltanschauung too had been largely fathered by the image of the national socialist Taborites.” He notes official utterances to the effect that Nazism stood firmly on the Left, reveals Hitler’s “genuinely leftist turn of mind,” shows that the economic order under the Nazis was thoroughly socialistic, and reminds us that besides the Jews, the groups most hated by the Nazi leaders were royalty and the nobility.
Leftism is thoroughly documented with hundreds of footnotes, and an index is provided to both the text and the notes. A valuable chart illustrates the major attitudes of “Right and Left in State, Society, Church, Economy and Daily Life.” An appendix recounts the tragic life of Charles-Armand Tuffin, “a Frenchman who participated in the War of Independence and who clearly perceived the difference between that noble struggle and the French Revolution, a man who should be much better known to Americans than the immensely vain and morbidly ambitious Lafayette…”
Der polyglotte Östereicher schreibt von sich selbst im Klappentext:
“I am an Austrian with a rather varied background and a good share of unusual experiences. Born in 1909 as the son of a scientist (radium and x-ray) who died as a victim of his research work, I traveled quite a bit as a young boy and acquired a knowledge of several tongues. Today I read twenty languages with widely varying skill and speak eight. At the age of sixteen I was the Vienna correspondent of the Spectator (London), a distinguished weekly founded by Addison and Steele. Engaged in the study of law and Eastern European history at Vienna University at the age of eighteen, I transferred a year later to the University of Budapest (M.A. in Economics, Doctorate in Political Science). Subsequently I embarked on the study of theology in Vienna, but went to England in 1935 to become Master at Beaumont College and thereafter professor at the Georgetown Graduate School of Foreign Service from 1937 to 1938. I was appointed head of the History Department in St. Peter’s College, Jersey City (1938-1943) and lecturer in Japanese at Fordham University. Until 1947 I taught at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia. These studies and appointments were interspersed with extensive travels and research projects, including a trip to the USSR as early as 1930-1931.
“During my years in America I traveled in every state; southeastern Oregon and northern Michigan alone are still my ‘blank spots.’ In 1947 I returned to Europe and settled in the Tyrol, halfway between Paris and Vienna, and between Rome and Berlin, convinced that I had to choose between teaching and research. From 1949 onward I revisited the United States on annual lecture tours. Since 1957 I have traveled every year either around the world or south of the Equator.
“One of my ambitions is to know the world; another one is to do research in arbitrarily chosen domains serving the coordination of the various branches of the humanities: theology, political science, psychology, sociology, human geography, history, ethnology, philosophy, art. I have a real horror of one-sided, permanent specialization. I am also active as a novelist and painter. My books, essays, and articles have been published on five continents and in twenty-one countries.”
Kommentar von Franz Solan Nüßlein — 7. Juli 2009 @ 21:47
Herzlichen Dank für die Lektüre-Hinweise, Kuehnelt-Leddihn ist schon über amazon.com bestellt. JF
Kommentar von JF — 8. Juli 2009 @ 00:24
Hallo !
Kuehnelt-Leddihn ist sicher ein weit gebildeter Mann gewesen. Trotzdem ist er cum grano salis zu genießen: sein Vergleich von Abtreibungen mit Auschwitz ist mehr als geschmacklos und unpassend. (ich denke, es war in dem Buch “Die recht gestellten Weichen”).
Viele Grüße
Dr. O.
Kommentar von Dr. Ohnemoos — 29. Juli 2009 @ 21:59
Ganz und gar nicht geschmacklos, die Geisteshaltung ist eine ähnliche - was dem bequemen Leben im Wege steht, wird ausgerottet.
Kommentar von Marco Reese — 14. August 2009 @ 21:04