With Marx, it's easy to point out where the Stalinists corrupted, betrayed, misused, and contradicted the essence of Marxism, like, pick a random sentence from the MECW.
With the Nazis, it's not so easy. H had an ideal;ized image of Nazism, to be sure, but say you pick a random sentence from Mein Kampf. Where exactly did the Nazis every deviate very far from that blueprint?
People said from very early that we were warned. Him too, Heidegger. I mean. If he chose to overlook Der Sturmer and the Brownshirts terrorizing Socialist voters in 1933 and the Nuremberg laws in 1936 and the Gestapo and his Fuehrer's own words -- all this well before the war and death camps -- I don't think that gets him off the hook. Less so since he personally implemented Nazi antisemitic policies expressed in the Nuremberg laws while acting in an official capacity as Universirt Rector.
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Heidegger
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 3:32 AM
> Wait a second here. Heidegger did in fact repudiate the
> Nazis, as I am sure you know, with the statement
> (paraphrasing from memory) that they had vulgarized and
> corrupted the essence of National Socialism, turning in
> into something bad.