File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-02-08.012, message 2


Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:53:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-I: Nietzsche and Mariategui (lnp post #1)



Barklay at least recognizes that whatever N's popularity in right wing
nationalist circles (which still doesn't show that his ideas directly
influenced any important Nazis), N himself vehemently rejected racism and
antisemitism.

Louis P.throws off the blonde beast pgrase as if it settled the matter. We
might look at that phrase in context. It occurs centrally in the
Geneaology in the discussion of the master morality, in which N is
explaining what the masters consider "good" and the slaves invert to
"evil." N is not endorsing the master's conception. His transvalued values
are not the old master morality, which he thought belonged to another time
and had been destroyed by the slave morality anyway, and so was
unrecoverable. He was talking about the master's self-conception. If that
fit with some right wing nationalist or Nazi self-conceptions, why is that
N's fault?

N has a lot of problems. He is a reactionary, a misogynist, an
antisocialist, an antidemocrat. But he's no racist and no Nazi.






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