In short, the revolutionary figure of the worker, sketched less by the industrial system than by the military one, fills the kinetic disparity between slow war and rapid war. The "full steam ahead through the mud" of the nihilist Nechaiev, apostle of systematized terrorist warfare, is not a rhetorical figure but a serious technological proposition: compensate for the distortion born of the destructive assault's necessary brevity by accelerating the rhythm of attacks. Historical evolution is then kept moving literally by a combustion engine!
German fascism will have the same concerns. With Heidegger it becomes "die Totale Mobil-Machung," "the final stage of the will to power and the realization of the essence of technology: nihilism." The proletarian soldier can in non-war pursue his revolutionary task, assault, which has become an aggression against nature. This is the pan-destruction of the world (Bakunin) , the great geo-political sites that devote the earth to war, keeping its visible surface for the "worker of metaphysics," or giving it to him by educating him. In practice, this begins as a kind of humanitarian aid to the German unemployed, then as a voluntary service to which Heidegger calls the intellectuals, "a service of work, knowledge and arms. " This will become the exemplary development of the history of the camps that, in 1 926, receive their first volunteers, mixing, in the most moving manner possible, workers, peasants and students.
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