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62: Nietzsche Contra Capitalism

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Political Thoughts on the Abolition of Property

If one is seeking socialism through you know if they're looking for a persistent end to the class war totally egalitarianism through land redistribution it'll never work Nietzsche writes quote in a few generations by inheritance here one plot would come to five owners there five plots to one even supposing that may enact we asked. The same equal plots would indeed exist but there would also be needy malcontents owning nothing but dislike of their kinsmen and neighbors and longing for a general upheavalend quotes. I think maybe what Friedrich Engels was saying could maybe be seen as more of a response to how he would see the progressive taxation regime of the socialists realized through the democratic process how that could also go wrong.

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