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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"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, when he's not saying Socrates was wrong because he was from the "lower orders"

Nietzsche of course lived through the change of the Prussian Kingdom becoming the German Empire. Lmao.

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is this different than the criticism that leftists on Lemmy espouse against modern liberalism?

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They don't claim to be apolitical, for one, but neither did Nietzsche.

Just people lying about him, for some reason.

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year 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.

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