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The Origin Of The Fascist Mentality 41
Peters, Nietzsche's biographer, his philosophy
rested on Roman and Greek paganism, and in his
writings he called for "a new Caesar" to transform
the world. 13
Nietzsche had a particular hatred of the
ethical views of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
In his opinion, concepts such as love,
compassion and humility, must be abandoned
and replaced with a so-called "master morality"
which accepted the warlike and ruthless state of
nature. In Thus Spake Zarathustra, he wrote, "Of
all that is written I love only what a man has
written with his blood. Write with blood, and
The German racist Wagner,
you will experience that blood is spirit." 14 known for his reverence of
Nietzsche was also a racist. He European paganism and
hatred of divine religions,
maintained that one part of mankind was
was regarded in Hitler's
composed of übermensch (superman), and that time as the greatest artistic
the others had to serve and obey them. genius.
Furthermore, he claimed that these so-called
"supermen" would found an aristocratic world order, a theory which was put
into practice by Hitler's armies at the start of the Second World War in 1939.
These two aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, his racism and reverence
for violence, are allied closely to Darwinism. Nietzsche's thought was in fact
strongly influenced by Darwin. Darwin's discrimination between the different
races conformed closely to Nietzsche's perception of "superior and inferior
The likeness of those who disbelieve is that of someone
who yells out to something which cannot hear—it is
nothing but a cry and a call. Deaf—dumb—blind. They
do not use their intellect.
(Koran, 2:171)