NIETZSCHE AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
Nietzsche - the Saxon of Calvinistic
(approximately Puritan) descent, who disliked 'otherworldsmen' (otherworldly
individuals) from a standpoint that believed, unlike Marx, in the 'overman',
but avowedly not in terms of the kind of otherworldly disposition that can
arise from a Catholic ethnic bias. On the contrary, his will-affirming
'overman' has more in common with what are these days called 'alpha males' than
with the kind of 'omega male' who, being properly male (subjective), is
given, by contrast, to an idealistic if not transcendentalist orientation above
and beyond 'the world', as of 'the worldly'.
Anybody who is effectively before and behind
'the world' is unlikely to be idealistic, much less transcendentalist, but
rather fundamentalist if not materialistic in what amounts to an autocratic
disposition at axial variance with anything even remotely theocratic.
You can see how Hitler was able to capitalize
on Nietzsche, affirming the will in contrast to any Schopenhaurian rejection of
it from a kind of Buddhist standpoint given to sedentary quietism if not
exactly to an outright transcendentalism.
With Hitler, there is far more Nietzsche than
Schopenhauer, despite his evident respect for the latter. There is also,
one might say, far more Hegel than Marx, but that is another story, since
'natural selection' through the survival of the fittest is not necessarily
compatible with the evolution of geist,
or mind, in the historical process. Rather is it a throwback to some more
barbarous process having its roots in female dominion under heathenistic
criteria stemming not only from nature but, more fundamentally, from
Supernature, that metachemical fieriness in back of the watery world and effective
fount of autocracy.
Hegel points towards Spengler and therefore to
a new and ultimate theocracy compatible with the evolutionary consummation
of geist. Compared to
this, both the alpha-rejecting Schopenhauer and the alpha-affirming Nietzsche
are irrelevant. So is the geist-rejecting
Marx. Only that which affirms the Omega leads on, via Spengler and de
Chardin, to Social Theocracy and the possibility, thereby, of 'Kingdom Come',
the true resolution of the historical process whereby geist 'comes out' as that which, in the guise of metaphysics,
most characterizes the consummation of the evolutionary struggles within the
aforementioned historical process. Such a paradoxical 'coming out' of
true religion implies the end of 'the world' and all that which is in
dialectical conflict, as between female and male elements engaged in
reproduction.
In Germany, National Socialism, a largely South
German ideology deriving from founders and leaders of mainly Catholic descent,
foundered on the rock of North German Protestantism, as any pretensions towards
a new theocracy which may have initially characterized the movement were duly
compromised by autocratic predilections more traditional to the
Prussian-dominated North. Idealism succumbing to materialism, transcendentalism
to fundamentalism, the SA to the Army, with only a late revival, during the
latter stages of the war, of Party idealism in the guise of the SS, by then
severely compromised by circumstances and more militaristic than had formerly
been the case. Inevitably, the Third Reich collapsed under pressure of
its own paradoxes, not unlike Nietzsche himself, whose Superman remained
hamstrung by attributes more befitting the Superfeminine and the triumph, at
the expense of geist, of the
Will. War always leads backwards, and the Nazi 'sell out' to the
Prussian-dominated military ensured that, in Germany, National Socialism
succumbed to the 'dogs of war' and thus to autocracy at the expense of
theocracy, in the Nietzschean struggle with Marxism, a resurgent Alpha against
a debased omega, the effective omega point of 'the world', 'overman' against
'underman', that neither Hegel nor Spengler would have foreseen, much less
endorsed. But then theory and reality are two entirely different things,
and what came out of a struggle against Marxism and the injustices of the
