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Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

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The Left Critique of Religion

Nietzsche's criticisms of Christianity dovetail with his criticisms of liberal democracy and socialism. He says religion is not the handmaiden of reaction, and it isn't going to serve as a long term glue that will hold hierarchical societies together. In the Antichrist, he says that the anarchist, the socialist, and pretty much every other kind of radical you can think of all share this genealogical link to Christianity.

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