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Left Nietzcheans (media.scored.co)
posted 7 hours ago by Heliocentric on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +12Score on mirror )
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devotech2 on scored.co
5 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Everyone cherrypicks nietzsche because he pretty much exists outside of the boundaries of standard politics. He was a reactionary, definitely, but the "übermensch" shit had an indelible influence on the political left. For example, Mussolini who openly embraced him while he was still a communist, ironically. He also kind of did it to himself by associating himself with anarchists in the late 1800s. There's also a messy association with the very much leftist max stirner and nietzsche, who was definitely influenced by stirner. In Nietzsche's day, the left was more of a side-note and a symptom of a wider problem, leftism wasn't the concern to him, liberalism was, and liberalism was the concern of most reactionary philosophers (and most leftist ones too, for that matter).

The far left and reaction actually weren't exactly divorced from each other, early on, in the west. Both were the underdogs vs liberalism, which they were both very hostile against. Considering that they were both repressed movements, they mixed together a lot. This is actually how fascism was born in the first place. A French monarchist probably did not care at all about a French marxist, a French marxist probably wouldn't be bothered at all by a French monarchist (indeed, Marx only really wrote about how capitalism is bad, and wrote little on systems before it). But they both would have despised the French liberal. Mutual interests led to mingling and the synthesis that is fascism. Though the child of political reaction and marxism tends to be quite hostile towards both of its parents as well as liberalism

Fascism, being very loosely defined and existing as a sort of Frankenstein between 2 polar opposites, lends itself to the individual fascist himself to "customize" as he sees fit how reactionary/leftist it is (to a point). You can lean more reactionary, like hitler. You can be "centrist", like mussolini. You can lean to the left, like Rivera, etc. The one thing binding all of them are that they're all pro-hierarchy (which it inherits from reaction), nationalist, anti-bourgeoisie (which it gets from both of its parents), and against capitalistic labor exploitation (which it gets from marxism). Everything else is subjective and variable, even the issue of race or adherence to tradition/religion (mussolini was an atheist progressive for most of his political career, though this changed eventually).

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