Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

Assuming that the Ubermensch toils solo, how does he/she effect 
the changes required? Seems to me that a  pliant "congregaton" 
would be a necessity....


love,
cfa

> 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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