Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction
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The Left's Role in Demanding Social Change
There's this criticism of Christianity's egalitarianism, giving rise to democracy and socialism. Can we take this Nietzschean critique on its head and accept it that yes, the communists are the true Christians? I do think there's definitely strategic terrain where the left could reclaim a kind of egalitarian Christianity to its benefit. But Marx is absolutely correct that religion can very often be mobilized into fetishistic or idolatrous forms.
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