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Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel

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Aristocratic Radicalism and Conservatism

Asnica believes that the encienne regime and conservative elites in europe at his time weren't tough enough to put liberalism and socialism back in their place. And so one of the things that you needed was a much more creative, vibrant, and indeed violent and militant elite. This is where aristocratic radicalism comes in, right? What he wanted was a revolution against a kind of bourgeois traditionalism, or just traditionalism. But it was eventually going to put the right hierarchy in place and keep everyone else at the bottom, and indeed, created an even more hierarchical society, if that's possible,. A really fascinating idea, because it runs so contrary to what many people on the

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