> Caveat: my dissertation (never finished) was on
>
>Heidegger.
>
>As far as I can see, in 99 out of 100 cases, recourse
>to the "Heidegger was a Nazi" trope is an attempt to
>"brown-bait," if you will, his ideas and anybody
>influenced by them. Lurking behind them is the weird
>idea that fascists must be stupid. Usually this is
>done by people who have never read or understood him.
>
>(PS. Lenin killed a lot more people than Mussolini!)
Why not apply the same yardstick to Eisenstein and Brecht? :-)
Ulhas