From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu> Subject: M-I: Nietzche Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:36:20 -0500 () To Justin Schwartz, Really, Justin, you are imitating some other people on this list by misreading my post on Nietzche. I was responding to Doug Henwood's nearly total negativism by pointing out that indeed Nietzche had opposed the racism and nationalism of Wagner, among other things. I view Nietzche as a mixed bag. He said a lot of brilliant and insightful things, but if someone is following him as their lodestar, I find it fundamentally creepy. There are very good reasons for why the Nazis could see him as a hero philosopher. Doug has provided some suitable quotes on "blond beasts" and "predators," to show what they could and did go for. I agree that mostly Nietzche's ubermensch was supposed to be a philosopher/artist, kind of a Wagner, actually, who certainly thought that Nietzche had him in mind, which he apparently did, for awhile... As for the argument about Stalin and Marx, well, there are passages in Marx that were used to justify the worst excesses of Stalin, as the fans of Stalin on this list would be quick to point out. But that does not mean that everything Marx said was bad or wrong and I don't think it was. The same goes for Hitler and Nietzche. Barkley Rosser -- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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