The Psychotic Left
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The Psychotic Left

From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

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The Psychotic Left

From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

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About This Book

One consequence of the triumph of the political left is the proliferation of fanciful psychiatric diagnoses for all manner of conservatives. Now Kerry Bolton has written a factually based account of the pathology of the left - the vanity of Rousseau, the narcissistic personality of Karl Marx, the megalomania of Trotsky, the father-hating hedonist Mao Zedong, through to the paedophile promoting Allen Ginsberg, and the Oedipus complex of Louis Althusser who on release from a mental hospital strangled his wife. Kerry Bolton’s The Psychotic Left not only makes fascinating reading, but it provides an insight into the hypocrisy of many of the leading figures on the political left, who despite their rhetoric were totally devoid of compassion or empathy for their fellow man. A common thread of many of the personalities discussed in this book is an overwhelming narcissism - the arrogance of people who are absolutely confident in their prescriptions for redesigning society and absolutely ruthless in putting their ideas into action - whatever the cost in human lives and suffering.

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Publisher
Black House Publishing Ltd
Year
2019
ISBN
9781912759880
Edition
1
Topic
Politique et relations internationales
Subtopic
Communisme, post-communisme et socialisme

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. The Psychotic Left
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Political Uses & Abuses of Psychology
  6. The Left & the Degenerative Personality
  7. The Revolt of the Under-Man
  8. ‘The Politics of Envy’
  9. The Psychology of Bolshevism
  10. ‘Pathocracy’
  11. Leftist Personalities
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  13. Sadism and De Sade
  14. Jean Paul Marat
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Leon Trotsky
  17. Vladimir Lenin
  18. Louis Althusser
  19. Mao Zedong
  20. New Left: New Psychosis
  21. Trotskyism in Britain
  22. Jerry Rubin
  23. Abbie Hoffman
  24. The Weather Underground
  25. Mark Rudd
  26. Aftermath: From New Left to New Age
  27. Feminism
  28. Intellectualising Paedophilia
  29. ‘Madness’ as Social Revolt
  30. ‘Next Left’
  31. Conclusion
  32. About the Author