In-der-Blog-sein

Novelita Blog hosts an editorial by Slavoj Zizek:

If Heidegger cannot be pardoned for his flirtation with Nazism, why can Lukács and Brecht and others be pardoned for their much longer engagement with Stalinism?

This has always struck me as an issue of quality over quantity. The shocking thing wasn't only the sheer numbers involved, but also the dispassionate use of technology to address the problems in the disposal of corpses, as if it was merely another project for engineers.  ¶ 7:46 AM