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Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

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The Left and the Right Get Nietzsche's Politics Wrong

You've argued both the left and the right get Nietzsche's politics wrong. In fact, his political vision is one that neither would like you've certainly laid out some of the foundations of what his aristocratic radicalism are. So let's take the left and right in turn starting with the right. How has the right tried to claim Friedrich Nietzsche but fundamentally got him wrong? Well, the big way is that they've tried to combine various forms of Nietzsches' theories about Superman to various forms of nationalism,. particularly ethno-nationalism.

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