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"When the French peasants said no to feudalism, that was a verbal expression...of their striving for possession of land, for a free say in their labour and the fruits of it, for political freedom and so on, i.e., something positive. In the reality of society, the terms yes and no are inseparably linked dialectically. There does not exist a no in society which does not incorporate an essentially positive element."

"Hitler was passionately opposed to objective truth, and he contested objectivity in every sphere of life. He regarded himself as the agent for a capitalist display whose purposes he was striving to achieve with ruthlessly crafty propaganda techniques -- in conscious independence of any objective truth or accuracy. In this respect he was truly the clever pupil of American advertising."

Fascist rhetoric in summary.

"Hitler's 'originality' lay in the fact that he was the first to apply techniques of American advertising to German politics and propaganda."

"They ceased to possess even the semblance of an ideological bona fides...In their speeches and writings, the fascists poured out with a nauseating show of emotion their national and social demagogic, whose public second names were honour, loyalty, faith, sacrifice, etc. But when they came together in private, the spoke with the most cynical, knowing smiles of their own messages and manifestos."

First Schopenhauer, then Nietzsche. Next target in the firing line: Heidegger.
"The methodology and content of Heidegger's philosophy are expressing...the intellectual philistine feelings in a time of severe crisis."