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Holden Caulfield
7th February 2008, 17:34
"Behold, I teach you the overman! The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go"

is Nietzsche stating that 'overman/superman etc..' is in fact socialist man, and that 'god is dead' means that the old ways are dead and that 'God' is merely the very human concept of wanting to create a new better world embodied and corrupted by the church?

his chapter 'three metamorphisis' explains revolutionary strugge, telling the workers, in his book the camel, to become a lion to kill the old ways, and then a child to create a new world?

thoughts if anybody has read this?

ArabRASH
7th February 2008, 17:40
I know MANY people will disagree with me, but after i read Thus Spake Zarathustra, although many things contradicted it, i believed that Nietzsche had many socialistic tendencies, and many things he says in the book is pro-socialist. many people say he was an individualist and capitalist, but i tend to disagree. "Remain faithful to the earth" sounds very socialistic.