If you need to explain, never ever shorted the phrase. Just keep saying “bourgeois nihilism”.

The bourgeois nihilism of today is distinct from the bourgeois nihilism of Nietzsche’s era…

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    5 months ago

    As someone who has actually never read Nietzsche, but some years ago did a course in college that had him, I have to ask: What is so wrong about Dessalines description of Nietzsche?

    My takeaway from the course was that he was sort of a proto-fascist saying that society was divided between the weak and the strong, and if wasn’t for certain institutions that “glorify” the weak like the Judeo-Christian religions, the strong would rightfully subjugate the weak.

    If that is a wrong view of his work I’m open for other interpretations.

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      5 months ago

      he was sort of a proto-fascist

      Nietzsche’s political views are unclear at best. He often writes hyperbolically and ironically (sarcastically?) so quoting scattered sentences from his works proves nothing.