Subject: Re: heid & nazism?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:36:38 -0800




> folks,
> 
> i think of ariel dorfman's death and the maiden,
> ...of course the doctor is all the while engrossed
> in schubert's quartet.
> 
> were schacht, speer, guderian, von braun, ...nazis?
speer minister of state, chief architect,
neoclassical interests,
schacht banker once,
brought in war socialism
public expenditures
during days of papen,
to which the Nazi's 
benefit
and shirer who says
shacht was the greatest
man other than papen to 
bring hitler to power
> 
> my po-boy's 18 brumaire
> imitation intended to show that the accepted
> historical rendering of the period is
> a myth...that the crimes of that history
> are most meaningfully laid to a material dispensation
> still very much in force.

underlying social causes,
bourgousie privilege,
athoritarian shooling and 
attention to obedience

> ...and then comes the standard procedure 
> nuremberg/truth-commission thing
> which displaces it onto the underclass,
> and creates the matrix for the meta-history
> ...and the framework within which 
> all subsequent clerical thinking obtains
> 
> by this the jackal style of the
> lumpen fraction of the underclass
> gets labeled fascist/devil, 
> and generaliszed to suficient cause,
> rather than the master that unleashed it.
> and profits from its ravages.

reichstag fire,
night of the long daggers
> 
> in the referred idealist construct, 
> fetishized bogeyman, "nazi",
> certainly heid is absolved

'harbinger' of what's to come
social democrats banned to 
teach universities
since 1899, a law,

dehn, gumbel, lessing, 
pacificists all,
 
> but, in materialist fact, chauvinism,
> like eros, is everywhere,
> by the order of civilization it is
> generally repressed/sublimated,
> but only very tenuously at best

others went on about the war
that will not be lost
how strength in the new reich
cant undo the blue angel 
or in emil jannings,
glory
but weimar yes...

> dwight mcdonald observed at the time
> in re the expressions of moral outrage

must be more than outrage
justice that is more than 
emotion

> from the superior nuremberg prosecutor types,
> that they'd soon be home in virginia,
> carolina, etc. and back to lynching niggers.

...lots of african americans were destroyed
by sheet heads in the south,
but has not been told as well
some of the justices might of been 
from the south... justice jackson

 
> finally, my pt is (not henk's) 
> that the question itself is 
> a specious construct of idealist thinking

...not important in the scheme of things
the hidden king
unlike freedom 
which cannot be opposed to
security unless...
unless the ground of being
is material!
 
> so heid was no nazi,
> but the intro to metaphysics certainly
> enunciates a zeitgeist,
> ...latter day spencerian jeremiad, 
> he was, alas, bourgeois.

"Every essential form of spiritual life is marked by
ambiguity....philosophy is always the concern of the few. Which few? The
creators, those who initiate profound transformations....Even if philosophy
can provide no foundation for a culture, the argument goes, it is
nevertheless a cultural force, whether because it gives us an over-all,
systematic view of what is...." Intro. to Metaphysic's





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> bob
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