Nietzsche and Other Exponents of IndividualismCarus, Paul
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Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism
Carus, Paul
Individualism; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
"Nietzsche, on the contrary, pours out his contempt
upon democracy because it is not aristocratic. He is
predatory to the point of demanding that those who must
succumb to feline rapacity shall be taught to submit with
resignation. When he speaks of 'anarchistic dogs' scouring
the streets of great civilized cities, it is true, the
context shows that he means the communists; but his
worship of Napoleon, his bathos of anxiety for the rise
of an aristocracy that shall rule Europe for thousands
of years, his idea of treating women in the Oriental
fashion, show that Nietzsche has struck out in a very
old path--doing the apotheosis of tyranny. We individual
egoistic anarchists, however, may say to die Nietzsche
school, so as not to be misunderstood: We do not ask of
the Napoleons to have pity, nor of the predatory barons
to do justice. They will find it convenient for their own
welfare to make terms with men who have learned of Stirner
what a man can be who worships nothing, bears allegiance
to nothing. To Nietzsche's rhodomontade of eagles in
baronial form, born to prey on industrial lambs, we rather
tauntingly oppose the ironical question: Where are your
claws? What if the 'eagles' are found to be plain barnyard
fowls on which more silly fowls have fastened steel spurs
to hack the victims, who, however, have the power to
disarm the sham 'eagles' between two suns?
"Stirner shows that men make their tyrants as they make
their gods, and his purpose is to unmake tyrants.
"Nietzsche dearly loves a tyrant.
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