"The war.. broke out .. in the West."The war did not "break out": that characterization of the onset of hostilities may characterize many wars but not this one: the war begins on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland. It followed one day after an SS propaganda stunt today known as the Gleiwitz incident.
From that bit of idiocy I find it difficult to take seriously anything that Losurdo says in this piece. A marxist, he sees Hitler and Stalin's dictatorships as the outcome of western theology. The history of China he is able to neglect safely as it lies outside the western corpus, the western opere.
But to say that war "broke out" is not just to offer an interpretation, a characterization, an impression, it is to mistate the simple facts.
Roy Elveton of Carleton College has an article in The Journal of Value Inquiry "Domenico Losurdo, Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death and the West" which may or may not shed some light.
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