Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:08:16 -0500 From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
>Kant is responsible for Hitler and his ilk? That's what >you seem to be saying, so correct me if I've >misinterpreted you. > >If that's what you're saying, that's one of the most >wrong-headed and irresponsible statements I've seen >in a long time! > >cheers, >frank It's by inheritence. Hitler, before coming to power, declared himself a Marxist, but that the Communists were doing things wrong & something which he was going to correct. Hitler was not following Kant directly but implementing what he understood from Marx. Along with his own megalomania, his basic socialism (Fascism was Musolini's system, not Hitler's) has its historical basis in Marx->Hegel->Kant. Yes, it's two steps away, but still the influence is historically present. And if you want leave out Hitler and just go with Hegel/Marx/Nietzsche, that's certainly enough to indict this teaching for the fruit it has plainly and significantly produced through Lenin/Stalin/Khmer Rouge. Collin KC8TKA