Incredible.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
Nietzsches sister was a fascist and claimed her brother was too (edit: after his death). A cursory glance from the Nazis showed them the concept of the Übermensch so they ran with it, but there’s not actually much there to support fascism. Nietzsche was a dick and there are all sorts of horrible things he wrote about non white men, but he wasn’t really a Nazi.
There’s a ton in Nietzsche to support fascism, starting with his virulent hatred of democracy, socialism, and liberalism.
He is simply the most important philosopher for the creation of fascism, including Giovanni Gentile, who gave Mussolini all his ideas.
That’s not to say he was a fascist himself, for example he absolutely hated nationalism and that’s kind of a requirement, or there isn’t any value in his works, I think there’s actually a decent amount in there for any kind of attempt at self actualization and rejecting victim mentality, but he’s definitely what you might call a proto-fascist thinker.
Keep in mind that there’s more kinds of fascist than Nazis. There’s even more kinds of Nazi than anti-semitic Nazis.
If I’ve got my Nietzsche right, then wouldn’t the idea of Ubermensch as something you can become rather than something you are not really line up with fascism anyway? Seems like they just took a word that sounded cool if anything.
Yeah… no. White America is pretty much the spiritual godmother of fascism.
Nazis literally looked to some of America’s founding fathers and the Confederacy for inspiration.
The confederacy was also defeated by Americans
Yes, but the the cowardly founding fathers were nowhere to be seen.
(I said nothing about “Americans”)
With Nietzsche as the godfather
I’m not familiar with that; what’s the relationship between Nietzsche and fascism?
Nietzsches sister was a fascist and claimed her brother was too (edit: after his death). A cursory glance from the Nazis showed them the concept of the Übermensch so they ran with it, but there’s not actually much there to support fascism. Nietzsche was a dick and there are all sorts of horrible things he wrote about non white men, but he wasn’t really a Nazi.
There’s a ton in Nietzsche to support fascism, starting with his virulent hatred of democracy, socialism, and liberalism.
He is simply the most important philosopher for the creation of fascism, including Giovanni Gentile, who gave Mussolini all his ideas.
That’s not to say he was a fascist himself, for example he absolutely hated nationalism and that’s kind of a requirement, or there isn’t any value in his works, I think there’s actually a decent amount in there for any kind of attempt at self actualization and rejecting victim mentality, but he’s definitely what you might call a proto-fascist thinker.
Keep in mind that there’s more kinds of fascist than Nazis. There’s even more kinds of Nazi than anti-semitic Nazis.
If I’ve got my Nietzsche right, then wouldn’t the idea of Ubermensch as something you can become rather than something you are not really line up with fascism anyway? Seems like they just took a word that sounded cool if anything.
Yeah, but the thing about fascists is, they’re dumb, so they didn’t think about it any further.