[lbo-talk] Nietzsche

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Fri Jun 29 14:22:17 PDT 2007


Yes, Marx and Nietzsche are on the same page here: the creative power of social relations. (That's why I don't get CB's antagonism about Fred. Sure, N hated socialists, but N completely agrees with old Whiskers on this basic philosophical level.)

Miles

^^^^^

CB: N. uses that basic philosophical truth to serve the ruling class. Evil genius is more pernicious than evil dumbness, because it is likely evil genius will help evil more than evil dumbness. N. is worse than others because he is so smart, and puts his smarts to the service of the ruling classes.

Brilliant physics is worse than mediocre physics when the former serves the U.S. military-industrial complex. The profoundly true understanding of atomic physics is profoundly evil in creating nuclear bombs.

By the way, there is a seeming contradiction here in that in his radical individualist/libertarian aspects, N. seems to take the opposite of a social determinist position.



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