Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

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In einer eMail vom 11.10.2002 18:27:31 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com:


> 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."
> 
> 

That's exactly the point. Nietzsche prepared that what was later called the 
"aesthetics of politics" and analysed by Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin 
a. s. o. Nietzsche himself was NOT a pre-fascist - for this he is too 
ambivalent, too ambiguous. But he was a "dangerous" guy - open for many 
interpretations, and most dangerous on a level where artificial and political 
sphere were mixed up. The mixture is dangerous - like two substances which 
are alone harmless, but if they are brought together...
kwp
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