On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 17:13:32 -0500 "Charles Brown"
<CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes:
> Nietzsche
>
> Jim F. : -clip-Nietzsche died around 1900 but his
> sister lived on until the mid-1930s. In the 1920s, she was a stauch
> supporter of Mussolini, and in the 1930s of Hitler, and she attempted
> to show that her late brother's philosophy lent support to both
> fascism
> and National Socialism.
>
> ^^^^^
>
> CB: The thing is though, that when you read Nietzsche it does not
> seem very hard to make him compatible with the Fascists or Nazis.
> The difference is way too subtle for Nietzche to be some great
> liberating thinker. He seems such a petit bourgeois rebel.
>
> ^^^^^
>
>
Charles,
What do you say about the many Marxists, who over the years have been admirers of Nietzsche. Many of the Russian Marxists were admirers of his thought including the Bolshevik, Anatoli Lunacharskii who attempted to turn "Nietzschean amoralism" to socialist purposes. Even Trotsky betrayed a certain admiration for this "petit bourgeois rebel." The Frankfurters of course, almost to a man, were great admirers of Nietzsche, as was Lukacs. And naturally Sartre was too, greatly influenced by the great German too.
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