[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-18 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D.: Most of this is prototypical fascist garbage that only a French or Yale philosopher could love. But the picture regarding the Jew is unclear. Nietzsche clearly indicts the Jews as a defeated people who in revenge inflicted Xianity on the noble Romans and the rest of the world. CB

[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-21 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen : These anti-Nietzsche remarks are childish. As I have said there is a lot in to criticize, also to learn from, but this Nietzsche the inspirer of Nazis and racists is just stupid, I mean, idiotic, and I m not using this in the Ralph Dumain "I'm pissed" sense, it's really dumb a

[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-21 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Farmelant We also shouldn't ignore the fact that during the twentieth century, Nietzsche had widespread appeal to lots of leftist intellectuals, starting with such folk as Lunacharsky, Bogdanov, Trotsky and a number of other Bolsheviks, was a major influence on the young Lukacs, and was gr

[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-21 Thread Charles Brown
> Jim Farmelant Nietzsche's Bolshevik admirers were attracted to his ideal of the Overman. However, whereas Nietzsche saw this ideal as realizable only by a select few, the Bolshevik Nietzscheans argued that it would be realizable by the many in a communist society. Leftwing Nietzscheans have

[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-22 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen I am bored with this discussion. ^ Yawn ^^^ Charles' argument is a tedious fallacy: CB: As opposed to an exciting fallacy. ^^ Nietzsche's ideas appealed to reactionary petty-bourgeois snobs and fading aristocrats; Some of the members of those groups were at

[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-22 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain : Nietzsche's genealogy of morals has contributed about as much to historical materialism as my left testicle. (Maybe I should rethink this last part.) Again, consult my piece: The Owl of Minerva: The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social Theory from Hegel to Nietz

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-18 Thread Ralph Dumain
Most of this is prototypical fascist garbage that only a French or Yale philosopher could love. But the picture regarding the Jew is unclear. Nietzsche clearly indicts the Jews as a defeated people who in revenge inflicted Xianity on the noble Romans and the rest of the world. It's not clear

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-20 Thread andie nachgeborenen
These anti-Nietzsche remarks are childish. As I have said there is a lot in to criticize, also to learn from, but this Nietzsche the inspirer of Nazis and racists is just stupid, I mean, idiotic, and I m not using this in the Ralph Dumain "I'm pissed" sense, it's really dumb and uninformed. This cr

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:36:35 -0700 (PDT) andie nachgeborenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These anti-Nietzsche remarks are childish. As I have > said there is a lot in to criticize, also to learn > from, but this Nietzsche the inspirer of Nazis and > racists is just stupid, I mean, idiotic, and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-20 Thread Ralph Dumain
This is all a load of shit, but first, I could use some specific references for Carnap's evaluation of Nietszsche. I've seen stray references to Nietzsche, but no sustained commentary. BTW, I don't think Trotsky's 1900 essay on Nietzsche was translated into English, unless it's happened over

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-20 Thread Ralph Dumain
Perhaps your recent career change will help you regain what's left of your mind. Or maybe finish it off once and for all. Anyway, your final paragraph undoes your harangue. It's not clear that we factually disagree about anything. The disagreement seems to center around your objection to th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-20 Thread Ralph Dumain
It's not. I'm pretty sure I read it when I last took this book out of the library, but apparently my retention leaves something to be desired. I remember some remarks about Nietzsche and metaphysics as bad poetry, but very little. This reminds me that I need to acquire this book: Friedman,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:09:01 -0400 "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jim Farmelant > > > We also shouldn't ignore the fact that during the > twentieth century, Nietzsche had widespread > appeal to lots of leftist intellectuals, starting > with such folk as Lunacharsky, Bogdan

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-21 Thread Ben Pincas
I am not a philosopher, but would like to comment the following remarks: But Hitler never read or (I believe) refers to N, most of the Nazis were not smart or literary enough to bother. His appeal among the German upper classes was to conservative aristocrats who despised Hitler as a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-21 Thread andie nachgeborenen
I am bored with this discussion. Charles' argument is a tedious fallacy: Nietzsche's ideas appealed to reactionary petty-bourgeois snobs and fading aristocrats; Some of the members of those groups were attracted to Nazism So Nietzsche is the intellectual godfather of Nazism Childish. Charles, las

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
Nietzsche's genealogy of morals has contributed about as much to historical materialism as my left testicle. (Maybe I should rethink this last part.) Again, consult my piece: The Owl of Minerva: The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social Theory from Hegel to Nietzsche: A Sketch h

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead

2006-08-28 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Some short answers for misunderstandings: N is not a racist, despite his talk of races. He doesn't, e.g., think that whites are superior to blacks because of "blood" or "race" or a lot of the common 19th C & subsequent lies. He's such an elitist that he thinks that most Europeans are pretty infer

[Marxism-Thaxis] God is Nietszche - dead draft

2006-08-29 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen Some short answers for misunderstandings: ^ CB: I can believe that there are some misunderstandings of N., however, his discussion is so , I don't know, "fractured", "spacy", that it is inherently misunderstandable. Secondly, it is still not clear that there is "any th