Jitsuzon Unplugged Chapter 17 Discussion

ImNotAnOtaku1 said:
@EmmyMoomin I find it hard to believe that Nietzsche was a proper "anti-fascist" considering that fascism was not invented until the late 1910s. Besides, Nietzsche was clearly opposed to democracy and egalitarianism because he saw them as counterproductive to individual prowess. On the other hand, he was also opposed to both socialism and capitalism (more so the first than the second due to his collectivist nature), as well as to the state and the church, as he also held cosmopolitan views and rejected racial ideologies.

In any case, Nietzsche had no real political ideology, at most he was just an individualist, he was "anti-fascist" by conjecture only, since the ideology as we know it wasn't really formulated until the Italian national syndicalists like Mussolini began moving away from the Marxist roots of their ideas and towards a more pragmatic view in regard to the role of the state, the citizen and social divisions.

All I'm saying is that I just find it funny when people are retroactively called anti-anything, since ultimately human nature can often drive people to having complete changes of mind, such as how Mussolini went from being a Marxist pacifist to an ultranationalist war-mongering corporatist.