this is a great lecture on Niezche and his thoughts on topics related to fascism

According to this guy, Nietzche actually believed explicitly in the eugenic value of race mixing, building on Lamarkian evolutionary theory, he thought that all nations should mix together so future people would benefit from the combined genetic heritage of humanity

the thought the jews were generally superior to europeans in their intelligence and industrialists, and that anti-semitism in particular was rooted in resentment, he opposed any concept of ‘pure race’ as retrograde and supported the “merging of nations” one where the existence of minorities like jews would no longer be a problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycyQwM__XU

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@ug I remember reading a letter Nietzsche wrote to a guy who sent him antisemitic literature. basically it ended with "you'll be pleased to note I have no Jewish friends, but I have no antisemitic friends either, so don't send me this shit again"

@nautilus

after the horse incident he was talking about shooting all the anti-semites, but no one listened

@ug Nietzsche was so proud of being German that he pretended to be Polish

@nautilus I like to think the bit about the horse is that he realized a fundamental flaw in his philosophy, that in fact compassion with suffering ( not mere pity ) was a visceral aspect of what it means to be human and this forced him to re-evaluate many things in term of his ‘transvaluation of all values’ but the task was so great and his brain was just not up to the task.

@nautilus

for real, dude hated germany. I love that story when he went to see Wagner and he literally puked over the vulgar nationalist themes.

I know he was a great admirer of Italian culture, like The Prince was his favorite book, referred to Cesore Borgia and Napoleon ( who was Corsican mind you ) as examples of over-men.

he also referred to the conquest of the Americas as “the extermination of cultures superior to our own”

He certainly would have scoffed at how rightoids today talk about “The West” surely would have pointed out the Greeks did not think of themselves as having any commonality with other Europeans who they called barbarians, whereas they looked to The semitic Near East as brother civilizations.