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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoI am no Nietzsche expert, but I had always heard that a relative in charge of his estate, who was a fascist, took advantage of him in his old age after his brain had been diminished by syphilis. He wasn’t a liberal or leftist by modern standards, but he also didn’t seem to be a fascist or anti-Semite.
Here is an article that seems to support this view:
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
There’s quite a lot of revisionist writing on him. I’d suggest you read his body of work beyond the typical recommendations to form your own opinion.
What most experts do agree is that his sister’s edits of Will to Power are quite obvious and her role in portraying him as an anti-semite is ludicrously overstated, in no small part by post-war fascists trying to lure more people into reading him. It does not stop him from being an anti-semite and anti-democratic thinker on his own.
Nietzsche isn’t the sort of philosopher that should be discarded for all of his -isms, just keep in mind that he’s also probably the most lied about philosopher in history since Jesus.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I have read several of his works, and they never struck me as inherently political—more like a commentary on observable sociological structures. I may just not be clever enough to absorb everything, but I had originally interpreted his work as observational rather than prescriptive.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
“Liberal institutions straightaway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained; no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions”
A common excerpt from the apolitical gem Twilight of the Idols
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
How is this different than the criticism that leftists on Lemmy espouse against modern liberalism?