I'd argue that it was the aftermath of the Great War that caused the Nazis, both from leaders like Woodrow Wilson (rot in hell you bastard) and the later full degeneracy of the Weimar Republic and them just using philosophers like Nietzsche as an excuse to sound more enlightened than they were.
I'd more argue a better representation of his philosophy with a bit of Machiavelli is Trump currently given how he is purging 'foreign mercenaries' within the government to replace with native leaders who have the will to lead by example.
You're not wrong with Trump's Machiavellian thrust on similar foundations ;)
I'm not hating on Nietzsche, just using the goto argument that most people associate with early Nazism. The Brits, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch all had their own take on nationalism around the same time. Industrialisation changed the workforce and the US changed the governance of peoples (Not without its own problems either!).
There was a lot going down and some glib musings from a highly educated soul can have knock-on effects which may have been nothing more than observations and estimates based thereupon.
That said Nietzsche did represent intellectualism and the beginning of what is currently known as post-modernism. If it hadn't been him it would have been someone like him :)
I'd argue that it was the aftermath of the Great War that caused the Nazis, both from leaders like Woodrow Wilson (rot in hell you bastard) and the later full degeneracy of the Weimar Republic and them just using philosophers like Nietzsche as an excuse to sound more enlightened than they were.
I'd more argue a better representation of his philosophy with a bit of Machiavelli is Trump currently given how he is purging 'foreign mercenaries' within the government to replace with native leaders who have the will to lead by example.
You're not wrong with Trump's Machiavellian thrust on similar foundations ;)
I'm not hating on Nietzsche, just using the goto argument that most people associate with early Nazism. The Brits, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch all had their own take on nationalism around the same time. Industrialisation changed the workforce and the US changed the governance of peoples (Not without its own problems either!).
There was a lot going down and some glib musings from a highly educated soul can have knock-on effects which may have been nothing more than observations and estimates based thereupon.
That said Nietzsche did represent intellectualism and the beginning of what is currently known as post-modernism. If it hadn't been him it would have been someone like him :)