File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9802, message 92


Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:00:12 -0800
From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Nietzsche and Jesus


> Therefore, might makes right, and Thrasymachus, much to Socrates' chagrin,
> wins.  Fine.  Now, please tell me again how this philosophy did NOT lead to
> fascism and nazism?
> 
> Toodles,
> 
> Paul S. Rhodes

_The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_ by Darwin,
_The Future Improvement of Society_ by Malthus as well as Marxist
adulation of the proletariat was the basis of Hitler's world view.
Hitler, like his fellow mass murderer Stalin, did not have an inkling
as to Nietzsche's powerful thought.

There is however, a danger for us in misinterpreting Nietzsche.
One should bear in mind that Nietzsche was in favor of submergence of
German nationalism in order to form a unified Europe. This was a
diliberate strategem on Nietzsche's part and must be recognized as
such through American eyes. For us, there is in fact no higher morality
than Duty, Honor, Country and it is only on this basis (as oppossed
to "victim ideology") that realization of our full potential will
be achieved.

John T. Duryea


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