Last May. Friend of Leddihn. "“When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, perhaps as many as 10,000 Germans killed themselves, and not all of these had been Nazis,” he wrote. “When the Soviet Union and Communist rule in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989, I do not know of a single Communist, whether in Russia or elsewhere, who committed suicide.”
"Frequently quoting Alexis de Tocqueville’s warning against the “tyranny of the majority,” he defined populist nationalism as the bedrock of Communism, Nazism and Fascism in the 20th century and the greatest threat to civilization today."
"Yet in Mr. Lukacs’s provocative view, as expressed in his book “The Hitler of History” (1997), the increasingly prevalent combination of nationalism and the welfare state in recent decades means “we are all national socialists now.”
"Yet in Mr. Lukacs’s provocative view, as expressed in his book “The Hitler of History” (1997), the increasingly prevalent combination of nationalism and the welfare state in recent decades means “we are all national socialists now.”
"He insisted that he was neither a cynic nor a “categorical pessimist.” But he wrote in his “Confessions of an Original Sinner” (1990), “Because of the goodness of God, I have had a happy unhappy life, which is preferable to an unhappy happy one.”
"In 1966, when the world was halfway between the year George Orwell finished writing his visionary novel “1984” and the actual arrival of that year, Mr. Lukacs envisioned a dystopia very different from the one Orwell foresaw but equally oppressive. His version of the future, he wrote in The New York Times Magazine, was already visible in two Pennsylvania structures not far from Philadelphia: the King of Prussia shopping mall and General Electric’s Valley Forge space complex.
"He saw these vast, impersonal edifices as the products of “planners, experts and faraway powerful agencies” who disregarded the will of the people — “our voices, our votes, our appeals.”
"“It is a sickening inward feeling,” he wrote, “that the essence of self-government is becoming more and more meaningless at the very time when the outward and legal forms of democracy are still kept up.”"
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