-- "Charles Brown" <cbrown@michiganlegal.org> wrote:
Jim Farmelant :

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 ?

^^^^
To a large extent that question has already been answered. Nietzsche
arguably had lots of ideas that are useful to leftists.  The geneology
of morals seems to be quite compatible with a historical materialist
analysis of morality. Nietzche's critique of retributivism has much
appeal to leftists (with the notable exception of Andie), his
recognition of the "will to power", taken as a sociological or
pyschological contruct, seems rather useful too. Also, many of
Nietzsche's Bolshevik admirers were drawn to his ideal of the superman,
which they democratized.