>The early-20th-century radical left and right grew out of the same >cultural
milieu, and also had a common fixation on "changing the world" and "creating new
man and society" and "casting aside the past" and of course often the belief
that their movement with an embodiment of History.
No, not at all. Of course in the night of the boheme all cows may have seemed as grey, but in every day culture there was a clear break between left ativities and institutions, following the tradition of Thomas Paine-enlightment linking liberation and equality - and the different right wing versions of anti-egalitarian "Übermensch".
There were people crossing this break. But only one time, because that way they broke with their former - social, political, ideological - position, and they hade never had the chance to go back: not Sorel, Mussolini, de Man, going from the left to the right, not Harro Schulze-Boysen and Joseph Römer, going from the right to the left.
Sebastian
P.S. I do not understand this much ado about Nietzsche. He - like the majority of german philosophers in late XIX. and the XX. century - was blocked by his aversion to Hegel. That may demonstrate the narrowness of his mind for the philosophers - for me the irrationality and the contempt for "simple people" is already sufficient.
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