Reading The Psychotic Left will be an eye-opener for many.
The supposed repressive neuroses of the right pale in comparison
with the selfish, vicious paranoia of the left (sometimes assisted
by drug use and demonstrable brain damage). How can the right
have failed to prevent the growth of socialist states all over
the West with policies of filling themselves up with third-world
immigrants to make up for their own failure to educate their
young to the maximum (according to ability)?
Probably the family-venerating Chinese will sweep all before
them as the West collapses under the ridiculous burdens which
the psychotics of the left have helped impose. But this book
will allow a most enjoyable moment of re-thinking - a new chance
to accept what Eysenck first began to explain academically in
1954.
Dr Chris Brand. Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
(1970-1997)
One consequence of the triumph of the 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 sadistic
cruelty of the Bolsheviks, and inadequate parent-child relations
of the 1960s New Left. A common thread of many of the personalities
discussed here is an overweening narcissism - the arrogance
of people who are absolutely confident in their prescriptions
for redesigning society and absolutely ruthless in putting their
ideas into action. An important contribution to a psychologically
based critique of the left.
Dr Kevin MacDonald, Professor of Psychology, California State
University - Long Beach