Even More Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

First, Excerpts from EvK-L's Liberty Or Equality depicting the voting patterns of Germans during the rise of Nazism. Catholics come off pretty good. I wonder if he also shows how many Catholics voted for the Communists, who after all were the Nazi party's main opposition. In _Leftism Revisited_ we read how a depressingly high percentage of German voters voted for one or the other of the totalitarian parties.

Second, A PDF-format article on the cultural background of libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises, which is very instructive on Central European culture and history. Here's just one example:

"And since all [Polish] noblemen were equals, they could not be ruled by majorities. In the parliament, the Sejm, the oposition of a single man--the Liberum Veto--annulled any legal proposition."

Strictly speaking, this is quite true. If a set of men are equals, the one-man one-vote system cannot respect this equality, while a one-man, one-veto system does. Imagine such a system operating in the putatively egalitarian United States!