The nihilism of de Sade went so far that he contemplated with a certain satisfaction the possibility that mankind could annihilate itself. "This total self-destruction would merely return to nature the opportunity of creation which we have taken from her by propagating ourselves."
Needless to say, children should belong to the state, a constant demand of leftists who have an innate hatred for the family as an "individualistic" cell that tries to separate itself from the state and society. De Sade's hatred of the family also took more extreme forms. He insisted that any society based on fraternity should make incest mandatory between brothers and sisters. (Interestingly enough, this theme recurs in the writings of Thomas Mann, a leftist of great literary talent.) Promiscuity in whatever form would naturally end the concept of fatherhood, which rests on a man's ability to identify children as his own through faith and conviction. But motherhood would survive; and there would be a fatherland, a patria, and this would be sufficient. Just as creation-propagation loses its value, so too does murder lose its horror.
The French Revolution truly lived up to de Sade's visions. In a sense, the Divine Marquis is the patron saint of all leftist movements. But bear in mind that only leftists produce "movements"; rightists, at best, only "organize" in a relatively hierarchic fashion. Spengler has said correctly that the concept of the "party" is itself leftist. Thus if movements and parties are not conducive to a genuinely rightist outlook, it follows that the principles of the Right within the parliamentary-democratic framework could only prevail in the wake of a catastrophic default or collapse of leftism. Generally speaking, the Right cannot win by virtue of its goodness, its truth, or its values, because it cannot enthrall the masses. It may attract extraordinary and superior people but it will only occasionally win over the average man.
* Reprinted from Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Regnery Gateway, 1990, pp.66-67
