Der Faschismus in Heidegger's works

Das Rektorat 1933/34 — Tatsachen und Gedanken (1945)

Everything stands in this reality today, whether it be called communism or fascism or world democracy.

Antrag auf die Wiedereinstellung in die Lehrtätigkeit (Reintegrierung — 4. November 1945)

But on a higher level, the confrontation with Nietzsche's metaphysics is the confrontation with nihilism, as one of whose political manifestations fascism has increasingly emerged.

Zu Hegel
Phänomenologie des Geistes
SS 1942

Nietzsche — Sorel — Fascism — Nazianalsocialism.

Rather, it is here that the consummation of the modern era begins, and indeed in a much deeper — i.e., in a much more comprehensive and intervening way than in fascism; it is true that this began in the “Romantic” in general — with regard to the humanization of man in self-assured reasonableness, but for its completion it requires the decisiveness of the historical-technical in the sense of the complete “mobilization” of all the faculties of humanity left to its own devices. One day, too, the deposition against the Christian churches must be carried out in a “Protestantism” without Christianity, which fascism is not able to carry out on its own.

It is equally insane — i.e., a reversal of innermost relations of essence — to want to fight Bolshevism by means of the racial principle (as if both did not have the same metaphysical root in fundamentally different forms) and to try to save Russianness by means of fascism (as if both, different by an abyss, did not exclude any essential unity).

Accordingly, authoritarian “socialism” (in the variations of fascism and National Socialism) is a corresponding (not the same) form of the completion of modern times.

National Socialism is not Bolshevism, and this is not Fascism — but both are machinative victories of machination — huge forms of perfection of modern times — a calculated consumption of folkdom.

But we should also know for ourselves that the confrontation with “democracy” and its counterpart, fascism, is never an essential one, because, remaining in the political, it fails to recognize that metaphysics and its essential domination are up for decision.

If the Germans' simplification had not already become excessive before 1933, then “one” would have had to recognize that so-called National Socialism, without the latter and its party supporters knowing it, was confronted with a completely different reality and that no one was free and knowing - thinking enough to lead out into the open and into the dimension of those decisions that have been there for a long time and are now despite. | Nevertheless, taking “anti-fascism” to the extreme.

“National Socialism” and “Fascism” would have been possible if they had succeeded | would have been a way to make “Europe” and its “education” and its “spirit” ripe and ready for “communism.”

Nevertheless, within the current course of history, “Europe” (what does that mean? Since America and Russia are “European” in the same way as Japan), the question arises as to whether it was not more far-sighted to enter and pass through the total organization of existence in world history and to endure it “dominating,” i.e., asserting oneself, than to belatedly stage a planetary nose-turning at “fascism” and to miss the historical moment.

The Christian churches are the slave owners for large-scale fascism.

The anti-fascists are the lowest slaves of the coming great fascism, which in America and Russia calls itself democracy.