lines by which Oswald Spengler acclaimed Hitler in 1934: “Man is a beast of prey . . . would-be moralists . . . are only beasts of prey with their teeth broken.” . . . Many seem to think this moral approval of brutality is only a German vice, but Simone de Beauvoir hails the glorification of crime and lust by the Marquis de Sade as great moral pronouncements and then identifies these teachings of crime and lust with the exposure of bourgeois ideologies by historical materialism. So the French Marxist writer transmutes bestiality into moral rebellion even as the Nazi historian does.
