(1) from nsdap to pnac
"The "American values" message and the Nazi theory are very similar. It was from Nietzsche's ideas that the German people took the theory of German supremacy, which stipulates that the world will not get well under German supremacy.
Just like the Nazi movement in Germany was a devilish product that believed in the supremacy and thought about re-conceiving the world according to its own political and ideological vision, the neo-cons' movement in the U.S. is a demonic product that believes in the supremacy theory and seeks to re-conceive the world according to its vision. Regimes in the world should change. Values should also change. Even the American regime should change, for it is not as the neo-cons think, the ideal regime, but it is the lesser evil."
ideological linkage - there's nothing oblique about this link. considering the time span, it couldn't be any more direct:
* carl schmitt, nazi ideologue, 1888-1985 - conservative critique of liberalism: against the rationalist pretention of secular separation of state and church. saw secularisation as marking the end of statehood (cf. nietzsche), proposed a catholic anti-enlightenment, a so-called "theocratic reformation". his anti-liberalism and anti-marxism results in the idea of a "catholic dictatorship".
* 1918 - justifies totalitarian means to suppress revolutionary forces, which also leads to the murder of rosa luxemburg.
* 1933 - joins nsdap.
* leo strauss 1899-1972 - schmitt's favorite student. ironically, jewish strauss emigrates to the u.s. and leaves his nsdap mentor behind - the two still work closely on their conservative critique of liberalism.
* develops neo-conservative philosophy, elements of which can certainly be found in neo-con policy (for instance, epistemic platonism (doxa) - "to deceive the stupid majority" is justified, good and necessary in strauss' view).
* regarded as chief ideological father of current madness. irving kristol is as anti-secular as schmitt, wolfowitz was a strauss student (second in line to a nazi ideologue), william kristol, podhoretz and perle are known straussians too.
* interestingly, stephen cambone, who was prominently exposed yesterday in connection with rumsfelds sap programme, is a strauss lover too.
(2) nationalist anthropology - who are "we"?
"The Ahnenerbe was part of Himmler's greater plan for the systematic creation of a "Germanic" culture that would replace Christianity in the Greater Germany to exist after the war, a kind of SS-religion that would form the basis of the new world order. This new culture would be based on the völkisch beliefs of the Nazis, and it was the role of the Ahnenerbe to marshal scientific research in an interdisciplinary program to reject the "priggish line of high-school professors" and support the "development of the Germanic heritage".
A central function of the Ahnenerbe was the publication of materials as part of the effort to investigate and "revive" Germanic traditions."
"The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages.
America was created by 17th- and 18th-century settlers who were overwhelmingly white, British, and Protestant. Their values, institutions, and culture provided the foundation for and shaped the development of the United States in the following centuries. They initially defined America in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion. Then, in the 18th century, they also had to define America ideologically to justify independence from their home country, which was also white, British, and Protestant."
from the wikipedia entry on eugenics:
"Various authors, notably Stephen Jay Gould, have repeatedly asserted that restrictions on immigration passed in the United States during the 1920s (which were overhauled in 1965) were motivated by the goals of eugenics, in particular a desire to exclude inferior races from the national gene pool."
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