I must not have made myself clear -- I thought I was agreeing with you.
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: B. <docile_body at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Nietzsche, Mencken, and anarchism
> To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 8:08 AM
> Chris,
>
> And why do you think this, given that I just linked to
> an article whose anarchist author points out the good,
> the bad, and the ugly in Nietzsche, and who, by the
> way, has also printed several of Nietzsche's books at
> his own expense? I can tell you didn't take a look at
> the piece I linked to, that's for sure.
>
> In fact, at that link I provide an example of not an
> anarchist site, but the World Socialist Website, who
> throw the Nietzschean baby out with the bath water in
> a 3 part series that condemns the Germanophobe [that
> is, Nietzsche, who wished he was Polish] wholesale.
> That's a statist-socialist, I reiterate, and not an
> anarchist site, that condemn him for the thing you
> mention. (Misogyny -- which, incidentally, is odious.
> :))
>
> So -- I just posted an article by an anarchist on the
> value of Nietzsche, and not something that excoriates
> him wholesale. Emma Goldman was a fan of Nietzsche's,
> too, and I have a recent anthology in my hands titled
> _I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite: Friedrich Nietzsche
> and the Anarchist Tradition_ (2004, Autonomedia, John
> Moore, ed.) that finds much value in him, too.
>
> There are indeed people that hold the view you
> caricature -- but what exactly is the evidence for
> your assertion?
>
> Most "reconciliations" nowadays with Nietzsche
> take
> place in the misty, murky academic backwaters of
> publish-or-perish niche journals; I find it nice to
> come across pieces now & then that don't go that
> route.
>
> -B.
>
>
>
> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> "(I comment after reading your preface). I think a lot
> of anarchism is characterized by a strange kind of
> mixed cultural moral provincialism and ethical
> absolutism. 'Oh noes! Nietzsche didn't like women!
> I
> better nor read him then!' If I wanted to limit myself
> to reading only writers with my own political
> sensibilities, that would close off pretty much
> everything ever written before around 1900."
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