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Showing my age here, I know 😂 I couldn’t find any photos where they look similar. But there are so many facial expressions John B makes that looks so much like Erik. Any 90’s children agree with me?
Thought I'd submit a post that not just memes and pictures of kings.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was a self described reactionary, conservative arch liberal, and a monarchist who didn't care much for democracy to say the least. Pretty based dude. He some interest takes on things and his wiki page is def worth a look for anyone interest in this train of thought. Has links to most of his work.
In particular I'd like to highlight his article "Monarchy and War". Short article, worth a read, basically goes into how war has become democratised and has become totally brutal because of it. His notion of "armed hordes" is also interesting. Additionally, he makes some quite scathing remarks on nationalism and ethnicism which differ drastically to the modern conservative. I'll leave a few quotes I liked too.
"Democracy as democratism is a gnostic ideology hell-bent on "saving the world." Monarchy is "familistic." The family is something natural. It needs no philosophical impulses. It represents no secular religion"
"The French Revolution attempted to bring liberty and equality under a common denominator, something Goethe argued that only charlatans would promise. Equality, indeed, can be established only by way of some form of slavery, just as a hedge can be kept even only by way of constant trimming. In this perverse competition between liberty and equality, the latter naturally won out."
Honestly would love to start a sort of book club with his articles.
Greetings, I just finished Liberty or Equality by EvKL and it was the first work I've read that I could say honestly changed my views on democracy and republicanism and put forward a solid defense of monarchy. It would seem many Austrian political theorists and philosophers that lived in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire were positively affected by the relative liberty afforded under that rule and this influenced the liberal movements arising from it (Mont Pelerin Society, Austrian economics, etc.).
While there are certain arguments he makes in this book that I find minor faults with, I was in agreement with his overall thesis. I'm curious as to whether the philosophy of monarchism that EvKL presents is markedly different or has unique contrasts from other monarchical philosophies written by individuals that (while supporting/advocating monarchy) were influenced by other political environments in which they lived/wrote? It's an intriguing subject I would like to explore more.
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