[lbo-talk] Nietzsche, Mencken, and anarchism

[Charles Brown]

"But it’s in his lengthy treatment of Nietzsche’s views on Christianity that Mencken is at his best. (One suspects that this is in part due to Mencken’s being in full agreement with Nietzsche’s attacks on Christianity.) He treats at length and explains well many points of Nietzsche’s critique, including Nietzsche’s assertions that Christian “chandala” slave-morality has led to acquiescence to evil and to lack of individual striving, and that Christianity discourages the development and use of the logical faculties, with dire social consequences."

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CB: But hasn't there been more individual striving in Christian  civilization than in any other ?  Christianity has led to the greatest individual striving ever. Christianity is the major religion of capitalism, which has lots of individual striving.  Individualism is rife in capitalist Christianity. 

Ask Carrol about _Paradise Lost_ and individualism.

  

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