[Antoninus]

The left has "appropriated" the extreme right's literary tradition, I'm afraid. Who are the literary heroes of the postmodernists? Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul de Man. None of those men was a friend to liberal democracy. All of them were anti-Enlightenment, anti-rationality, anti-science.

And this is surprising... why? Extreme left and right are actually two sides of the same coin.

[Reactionary]

Yes.

[Reactionary]

It is suprising to me because the left applies the "fascist" smear to nearly everyone, yet they demand that Heidegger and de Man be redeemed from it.

And, of course, they never address the question as to whether or not, say, Heidegger's thought had anything to do with his political beliefs. They've completely ignored Richard Wolin on that point, I think.