Appendix 2: Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism [Nietzsche and the Nazis]
Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism. Excerpt from Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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Authoritarianism
The Rise of Authoritarianism Panel [In case you missed it]
Related: Close readings of authoritarian thinkers in the Philosophers, Explained series: Hegel, Gentile and Mussolini, Marx and Engels, Heidegger, Dugin, Nietzsche.
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Voluntary submission to authority
On who holds the real power: “I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him.” That’s from Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) in his Discourse
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John Stuart Mill on the lock-downs
Indeed: “Many a person remains in the same town, street, or house from January to December, without a wish or thought tending towards removal, who, if confined to that same place by the mandate of authority, would find the imprisonment absolutely intolerable.” Source: Principles of Political Economy. Robson, J. M., ed. Books I-II. Indianapolis: Liberty
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Principled anti-Nazism [Section 41 of Nietzsche and the Nazis]
[This is Section 41 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 41. Principled anti-Nazism Philosophically and politically, the Nazis stood for five major principles: They stood for collectivism, for instinct and passion, for war and conflict, for authoritarianism, and for socialism. National Socialist Principles: Collectivism Instinct, passion, “blood” War and zero-sum conflict Authoritarianism Socialism That means we
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