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Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

Revolutionary Left Radio

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Nietzsche's Diagnosis of Nihilism

Ayn Rand and others have tried to read into Nietzsche a kind of support for capitalism, or at least interpret his thought that way. But he had nothing but contempt for capitalists as being too egalitarian in their outlook. He's also very contemptuous of the kind of bourgeois culture that he sees emerging with capitalism. One of his denigrations of The Last Men is that they'll have nothing but hedonistic outlooks.

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