Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

[Dave Monroe]

Note as well ...

"One has to ask if there is not something in
Nietzsche's philosophy with its uninhibited
cultivation of a heroic individualism and the will to
power, which may have tended to favor the fascist
ethos. Musssolini, for example, raised the Nietzschean
formulation 'live dangerously' (vivi pericolosamente)
to the status of a fascist slogan. His reading of
Nietzsche was one factor in converting him from
Marxism to a philosophy of sacrifice and warlike deeds
in defense of the fatherland. In this mutation,
Mussolini was preceded by Gabriele d'Annunzio, whose
passage from aestheticism to the political activism of
a new, more virile and warlike age, was (as Mario
Sznajder points out in his essay) greatly influenced
by Nietzsche."

Recalling ...

"'Ever heard of D'Annunzio?'  Then: Mussolini? Fiume?
Italia irredenta? Fascisti?" (V., Ch. 9, p. 242)

--- Doug Millison <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Golomb, Jacob and Robert S. Wistrich, eds.
> >    Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses
> >    and Abuses of a Philosophy.  Princeton, NJ:
> >    Princeton UP, 2002.
> 
> from the book's introduction
> (http://www.pup.princeton.edu/chapters/i7403.html):
> 
> "The intriguing question that lies at the heart of
> this original collection of essays is how Nietzsche
> came to acquire the deadly 'honor' of being
> considered the philosopher of the Third Reich ....

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