Nietzsche vs. Hitler

Anti-Nazism on the German Revolutionary Right

Friedrich Nietzsche has clearly been one of the most influential thinkers of the past century. His thought has exercised a profound impact on the intellectual disciplines of philosophy, psychology, history, theology, political theory, linguistics, aesthetics, cultural criticism, and others. A wide range of ideological and philosophical currents have attempted to claim the legacy of Nietzsche as part of their own trajectory, including existentialism, postmodernism, liberal Christianity, post-structuralism, and political tendencies as diverse as anarchism, fascism, and neoliberalism. Francis Fukuyama went so far as to proclaim the post-Cold War global hegemony of “democratic capitalism” to be the coming of Nietzsche’s “last man.” Clearly, Nietzsche’s ideas have been appropriated by an enormous range of usurpers, often in wildly inappropriate ways.