[lbo-talk] Re: Rise of anti-democratic liberalism

[C. G. Estabrook]

So it's more important to believe in the absence of of moral hierarchies
than to believe in some other things.  And it's the right thing to do...

Uh, isn't that a moral hierarchy?  --CGE

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Miles Jackson wrote:


> I've always thought Fred's "will to power" was pretty dodgy.  In any case,
> this illustrates my point: Nietzsche justifies cruelty and domination by
> making reference to an all powerful, universal life-force (will to power).
> Again, the evidence is clear: domination and mistreatment are justified
> and maintained by a belief in the inherent superiority of one moral/value
> system over another.  The Inquisition, the Holocaust, genocides, Abu
> Ghraib, the list goes on--these are not the results of wanton moral
> relativism; they are the direct products of the ideology of moral
> hierarchies.
>