Piergiorgio Odifreddi is a mathematical, logical and essayist, his writings, as well as mathematics, dealing with science, history of science, philosophy, politics , religion, exegesis (understanding the meaning of texts), philology (the study of words) and non-fiction varia.
Si ispira liberamente all'insegnamento e alle posizioni di Bertrand Russell e Noam Chomsky. In particolare, ha ripetutamente manifestato la sua opposizione alle politiche statunitense e israeliana, vedasi Non siamo tutti americani e La dannata Terra Santa .
Come ha accennato in un'intervista, ritiene che il "sedicente" sistema democratico, basato sull'elezione periodica di delegati ai quali viene assegnato un mandato generale in bianco per alcuni anni, sia ormai anacronistico e non adeguato né alla complessità della società moderna, né alla sua velocità di cambiamento.
Di Odifreddi mi piace molto questa sua affermazione:
Se la matematica e la scienza prendessero il posto della religione e della superstizione nelle scuole e nei media, il mondo diventerebbe un luogo più sensato e la vita più degna di essere vissuta. Che ciascuno porti dunque il suo contributo, grande o piccino, affinché questo succeda, per la maggior gloria dello Spirito Umano.
Il suo Il matematico impertinente, contiene la controversa Intervista a Hitler che riporto quì sotto. E' sicuramente un testo che fa riflettere sulla realtà in cui viviamo, molto in contrasto con il pensiero dominante nel nostro sedicente "occidente democratico".
Intervista a
ADOLF HITLER
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
January 2005
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria April 20, 1889, and devoted his life to the achievement of political exhibited in 1924 in Mein Kampf "My Struggle,''written in prison after a failed coup. His reign of terror could legally begin in 1933, thanks to 44% of the votes of the National Socialist Party, the Nationalist Party and 8% (20.5 million total), obtained at elections: a demonstration of the paradox that a dictator can also come to power democratically.
The expansion of the Third Reich began in 1938 with the annexation of Austria, and reached its maximum extension from North Cape to the Sahara, and from Normandy to the Caspian. The decline began in 1942 with the defeat of Stalingrad and El Alamein, and ended May 9, 1945 with the entry of the Russians in Berlin. Shortly before, on April 30, Hitler had killed himself with a pistol in his bunker.
Sixty years later, when the world is organizing a Fourth Reich that goes from the United States to the Mediterranean, we talked about with the bloody Third vegetarian who has operated for twelve years.
Fürer, after the end of the Second World War, his name has become synonymous with evil. What do you think?
History is always written by the victors, and the good is what is on their side. If we had won we would become synonymous with evil names of Churchill or Roosevelt.
not believe that there are objective reasons, in addition to the defeat? Stalin had won the war, and yet his name has become synonymous with evil.
Millions of people have not thought that way about Stalin, before and after the war, many Russians have cried when he died? I'm afraid you do not know much nor Stalinism, Nazism, nor, apart from what Ammannato the Propaganda Ministry, his country and what commands it.
Ministries of Propaganda? And what would our Goebbels?
To speak in terms you can understand, if we had the inhuman totalitarianism Orwell's 1984, your day is totalitarianism with a human face of the new World Huxley. His Ministries of Propaganda are therefore the film and television: If you want to find the new Goebbels, the circles between Spielberg and Zeffirelli, or between Murdoch and Berlusconi.
What did suggest, among other things, with that "country that commands us''? That Italy would be a U.S. colony?
And it is not, perhaps? Since you have been employed in 1944, there are more liberated. At present there are 125 bases and 35,000 troops Americans in Italy: is this independence? In Germany, then, we are even worse. What you call liberation, it was only the replacement of military occupation to another, unless performed but no less effective.
not possibly deny, however, that Nazism is guilty of crimes against humanity never before seen.
Ah, yes? And what?
First, the extermination of six million Jews.
not talk nonsense. My model for the solution of the Jewish problem was the way in which the United States had resolved the similar problem in India: a scientific and systematic genocide of the eighteen million native who lived in North America. How many Indians remain in the United States today? A few hundred, kept in reserve as the bison. And how many Jews remain however, in the world? Million, and have even been a whole for them, which, among other things, is showing that you have learned our lesson on how to deal with ethnic minorities.
She's just not a God!
Without the God of the Jews, perhaps. But we had your: was it not Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, saying that "all the murderers of the Holocaust were Christians, and the Nazi system did not appear out of nowhere, but had deep roots in a tradition inseparable from Europe's past Christian''? Not without reason, the SS wore my written Gott mit uns on the belt buckle.
The Church certainly does not think so!
But if, when Rolf Hochhuth broke the spell with The vicar in 1963, which does not mention the silence of Pius XII against what you call Holocaust! And then, she has certainly not read my Mein Kampf, which I imagine is not easy to find in your library: if he did, remembering that the project for the triumph of Nazism was modeled on the stubborn adherence to the tenets and the fanatical intolerance that have characterized the past the Catholic Church.
In any case, it would suffice to condemn the disregard for human life of innocent civilians who have proved during the war.
This is going to tell the people of Hamburg and Dresden, on which you have lavished the firestorm''that have killed one million. Or those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three hundred of which have been incinerated by two atomic bombs: no propaganda can erase the fact that the "bad''Nazis have not built these weapons of mass destruction, while the" good''the United States have not only built, but use!
At least, he will not deny his abhorrent political eugenics.
Whyshould I deny it? It was a means to achieve racial purity. But I do not understand what's so absurd: my 1933 law, for the prevention of hereditary defects, was explicitly based on the U.S. model of Harry Laughlin, which is why we gave an honorary degree in 1936 in Heidelberg. You know, you, the first law for the sterilization of "criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists''was promulgated in 1907 from Indiana? Which was later imitated by some thirty U.S. states, and declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1927 ? in the 30s were sterilized 60,000 people in the United States, half of them in California alone, and what in the '50s, after la guerra, furono castrati 50.000 omosessuali?
Non vorrà dire che gli Stati Uniti, il melting pot , sono un paese razzista!
Lei è proprio un ingenuo! Secondo lei, contro cosa manifestava Martin Luther King, ancora negli anni '60? E chi scrisse Il passaggio della Grande Razza nel 1916?
Chi?
Madison Grant, amico di Theodore Roosevelt. Quando il libro fu tradotto in tedesco, gli mandai una lettera entusiasta, di cui lui fu molto compiaciuto. E a proposito di Roosevelt, non dimentichi che Pierre van der Berghe, studioso della razza, l'ha messo insieme a me e a Hendrik Verwoerd, l'artefice dell' South African apartheid, racism in the Trinity of the twentieth century.
At this rate, will say that the United States was also a Nazi country!
United States could not have followed Nazism, because they preceded and inspired. After all, both wanted one thing: how to sing my SS, Morgen die ganze Welt . Unfortunately the world was almost entirely in the hands of colonial powers, and must be removed by force. The "evil''that we have accused was all here: they want to do what they had done to others. We have failed, but the U.S. is carrying out what was our real project: the global domain (military, political and economic) on the planet.
And 'This, then, the legacy of Nazism?
He already said Otto Dietrich zur Linde, the day before his execution, in an interview Argentine Borges, then published as Deutsches Requiem : Nazism was an ideology so well thought out, that the 'only way to defeat it was to hug her. We wanted the violence to dominate the world, and our goal has been fully achieved. We have not lived and we did not die in vain.
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