‘Against the Machine’ offers playbook for battling leftist lies

How did we end up with modern leftism and all its ills?

For Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, the answer depended on how deep you were willing to dig. For the average person, the problem seems to have started with World War II; the “more informed” soon realize that World War I is when things went wrong.

This battle will not be won on social media, through new platforms, or by means of yet another ideology.

But the “genuine historian,” writes von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in “Leftism Revisted,” goes further back in history still, all the way to the “mother of most of the ideological evils besetting not only Western civilization but also the rest of the world”: the French Revolution.

Paul Kingsnorth’s compelling diagnosis of what ails modern man in “Against the