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62: Nietzsche Contra Capitalism

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Metaphysical Criticism of Capitalism

Nietzsche criticizes both capitalism and socialism in a way reminiscent of some of his attacks on free will and determinism. He doesn't really attack that any of those ideas he simply attacks it on the matter of practicality. We have to always contextualize these passages within Nietzsche's understanding of history is somewhat cyclical and inevitable even though there are ways which we can see he's clearly trying to figure out how through reason we might avoid the clock from coming back to that position again.

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