No More Learning

The National Socialists, resolute editors of everything that guaranteed social and           success, were able to retain far less of Nietzsche than Jefferson could of Jesus-most of his writings were too inappropriate for their kitsch system, too anti-nationalist, too anti-German, too anti-philistine, too anti-revanchist, too anti-collec­ tivist, too anti-militarist, too anti-antirationalist, too disdainful of every concept of "national self-interest" [Volker-Selbstsucht],2 and, finally, to mention the decisive barrier, too incompatible with any politics of resentment, regardless of whether this presents itselfas nationalist or socialist or as a multi-purpose form ofvengeance politics; national/socialist.