>>2058
The way I see it, if one sees wisdom in a philosophy, but could possibly have encouraged national socialism, then the response should not be "into the trash the former goes" but should encourage you to reevaluate the latter
>>2048
>>2491
>>2493
It's sort of up in the air due to two points:
1) People often point out that Nietzsche had critiqued German nationalism (he lived during the Second Reich), but also envisioned a "new European man". It's not ridiculous to postulate that he merely had misgivings about the German nationalism of that period, which sought simply to extract loyalty towards crown and state (he did make negative comments about the state) without any real transformative and transcendental goal. National socialism, however, really did put a millenarian palingenesis forth as its raison d'etre, and though it did put Germans first, envisioned a new European order on radical new foundations.
2) People also point out that there were brief lines in which Nietzsche critiqued the anti-Semitism of his day. However, Hitler also critiqued prevailing anti-Semitism early in Mein Kampf. He rebuked those who merely envied the seeming overrepresentation of Jews among the high and successful, as well as those who hated Jews because they were the "killers of Christ" and thus were enemies of "Europe as Christendom". But the third anti-Semitism which Hitler fell in with, which was really only coming in to its own during the early 20th century after Nietzsche's death, was this new view of Jews as a parasitic and corrupting faction who were distorting the self-expression of Germans and Europeans as a people.
National socialists certainly don't have a slam dunk argument if they contend that they are the only manifestation of Nietzschean thought intellectually conceivable. Yet I think it's also hasty to say that they "grossly misinterpreted him".