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Ask A Left Nietzschean: Is Nietzsche's "Amor Fati" a Reactionary or Revolutionary Concept?

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The Importance of Affirmation in Ideology

Donovan: I'm going to come and sort of say what I pretty much always says, which is that I just don't see why I should love fate. And there's one specific moment that you said we need to affirm the world in its totality. And this is just one of those things where I can think that the world is probably the last thing I want to affirm. So although it might not help us as a tool, for example, it nonetheless retains a kind of connection to the actuality that we want to escape. We are envisaged ourselves in a particular form of transform material circumstances, material conditions, and attempt to kind of engender those.

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