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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoI 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?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
They don’t claim to be apolitical, for one, but neither did Nietzsche.
Just people lying about him, for some reason.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Fair enough. Like I said, I’m not a Nietzsche expert, I just had never interpreted his writings in a primarily political context, and I had read a decent amount of commentary from people who did claim to be experts that refuted the idea of him having fascist or anti-Semitic leanings.