[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger (and other responses)

[Jerry Monaco]

Heidegger's extreme rightwing romantic-nationalism was at the root of
his philosophy.  It was the motivation for his philosophy.  I doubt
that racism is at all connected to the development of the transistor.

On 5/9/06, ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
> At around 8/5/06 11:57 pm, Shane Mage wrote:
> > Ravi wrote:
> >
> >> ...As the anger on-list towards Heidegger has demonstrated, there is
> >> always room for mud-slinging against anyone you hold up as an
> >> important thinker....
> >
> > Not so.  The truth is that "there is always wrath and contempt
> > against any Nazi held up as an Important Thinker."
> >
>
> I presume you do not use any transistors in your life, since Shockley
> was such a racist? AFAICT, this is poor form and reasoning. BTW, the use
> of the word Nazi does not scare me much.
>
>         --ravi
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