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Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

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Julius Evola and the Nazis

The Nazis were antithetical in a lot of ways to some core things that Nietzsche believed. Julius Evola seems much more in line and I'd love to get your thoughts on this. So does somebody like Evola more or less get Friedrich right in a way that Nazis did not? It's hard to say, but there is definitely a symmetry between what he was arguing for and a kind of bastardized version of Nietzscheism. But it is an indicator of how his thinking and these lines of critique are going to be taken up by a variety of right-wing thinkers including one knee who are deeply inferior to the caliber of their thought.

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