Evola studied three aspects of the Jewish problem, and, in fact, more
than just three of them, besides being deeply interested in
Nietzsche's work, in which both philo-Semite and anti-Semite
statements can be found, as well as in Dostoevsky's, it is therefore
the right place to do so.
They both seemed to share an interest in 'great criminals' ; see
Evola's review of Mikorey's 'psicologia criminale ebraico', published
most probably - the date of publication is not mentioned in the
leaflet in which it was republished in 1998 by Sentinella d'Italia -
during WW2.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "kshonan88" <kshonan88@y...>
wrote:
>
> Of course it is up to debate whether
> > Nietzsche would have seen Hitler as someone deserving of such
> > excision, or whether the Jews should be those "one should make
war
> > on him even before he has committed any hostile act." But given
> > Nietzsche's dislike of nationalism, mass movements and anti-
semites
> > I am fairly sure what side he would have ended up on.
>
> I disagree. Its tiresome that N. is always taken out of context and
> his dislike of petty nationalism and his remarks on the
contemporary
> Bismarckian politics of his time are always cited as N. favouring
the
> Jews/the Allies or that he was somehow 'non-political'. Following
> N.'s BGE carefully, we see he actually prefers a blending of Med.
and
> Nordic culture, in short, a classical Aryan form, in all its
richness
> and varying hues... which is what NS set out to do. And considering
> N.'s ideal types were figures like Napoleon, Borgia, Caesar, etc.,
> and Hitler's antisemitism was beyond good and evil, and not a mere
> Christian hatred of Jews (like that exhibited by Wagner or Forster
> and so despised by N. who therefore felt jews and christian anti-
> semites are like "two peas in a pod") I'd wager the opposite.
Alfred
> Baeumler's pieces in this regard might be useful, though he
> misunderstood N. philsophically on the issue of the "eternal
return".
>
> N.'s views on the Jewish issue is a long one and if you are
> interested, and if you think this is the right forum to do so, I
> shall be happy to discuss it.
>
> N. was absorbed with the Dostoevskian psychology of criminals and
> criminality, and his remarks on Great Criminals, should be seen
from
> such a perspective. He thought in the democratic age, the Criminal
> Barbarian might represent a thwarted Higher-man, who destroys, to
> make way for a new culture. See HATH on "cyclopses".
>
> Regards.
>