[lbo-talk] Nietzsche and Douglass

[Charles Brown]

It would be interesting to compare the thinking of N. and Frederick Douglass
on masters, slaves, power, progress, psychology. They were contemporaries.
Douglass had first hand experience with the master-slave relationship ,
which N. fantasizes about. What was N.'s position on the U.S. Civil War ? In
Douglass' famous statement on struggle, he specifically says the struggle
can be moral or physical or both. He directly contradicts the notion that
slaves should learn from N. not to raise a moral struggle against masters.
He directly contradicts the ressentiment thesis.

But of course, N. seems to be explicitly and openly on the side of the
masters over the slaves. What was his position on the U.S. Civil War ?

Charles