As I think I mentioned a couple of times already, some of the
Bolsheviks were in fact more or less explicitly Nietzschean, especially
Lunacharsky.  Lenin condemned this Bolshevik Nietzscheanism along with
Bolshevik Machism (which came mostly from the same people).  Even
Trotsky, who was otherwise a trenchant critic of Nietzsche, betrayed
more than a little of Nietzsche's spirit, as Andie pointed out.  Chris
Sciabarra in his Ayn Rand book is particularly good on how
Nietzscheanism became pervasive among Russian intellectuals and artists
during the Russian "Silver Age" following the 1905 revolution.

Jim F.

-- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@yahoo.com> wrote:

I think Nietzsche and the Bolsheviks (some of them
anyway) do share a common belief in the immanent of
the old world order and a Promethean idea of building
a sort of New Man that will challenge and subjugate
the world.

They share this characteristic with futurism,
surrealism (sort of), and fascism BTW. It was kind of
in the air at the time. Though N. got to it a couple
of decades earlier.

--- "B." <docile_body@yahoo.com> wrote:

> At the bookstore today picked up the book _Nietzsche
> in Russia_, a collection of essays on Nietzsche's
> influence on Russian Marxism (ed. Bernice Glatzer
> Rosenthal). This includes the essay "Lunacharsky: A
> 'Niezschean Marxist'?" by A.L. Tait and lots of
> other
> stuff about Bakhtin, Bakunin, more. As well, a
> compilation of the old US anarchist magazine Mother
> Earth featuring some of Emma Goldman's takes on
> Nietzsche (ed. Peter Glassgold).
> 

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