It is also important to point out that while Nietzsche was politically a kind of reactionary and that his writings had a great appeal to certain kinds of reactionaries including the Nazis, his work also had a great appeal to many leftwing intellectuals.
^^^^^ CB; Still does. What's up with that ?
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As early as the 1890s, there were discussions underway within the German SPD as to how his thought could be used to promote socialism. During the twentieth century, Nietzsche was taken up by many leftists starting with such folk as Lunacharsky, Bogdanov,Trotsky, Bukharin, and a number of other Bolsheviks. He was a major influence on the young Lukacs (who later became a great critic of him). Nietzsche was greatly admired by the Frankfurt School (i.e. Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse), as well as by Sartre. And of course people like Foucault and his disciples styled themselves as "Nietzscheans."