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473

Socialism with regard to its means.— Socialism is the fanciful younger brother of the almost expired despotism whose heir it wants to be—its endeavors are thus in the profoundest sense reactionary; for it desires and abundance of state power such as only despotism has ever had. Indeed, it outbids all the despotisms of the past inasmuch as it expressly aspires to the annihilation of the individual, who appears to it like an unauthorized luxury of nature destined to be improved into a useful organ of the community. On account of its close relationship to them it always appears in the proximity of all excessive deployments of power, as the typical old socialist Plato did at the court of the Sicilian tyrant—it desires, and sometimes promotes, the Caesarian despotic state of the present century because, as aforesaid, it would like to be its heir.
But even this inheritance would be inadequate to its purposes: it requires a more complete subservience of the citizen to the absolute state than has ever existed before; and since it can no longer even count on the ancient religious piety towards the state, it has [1] involuntarily to work ceaselessly for its abolition—that is, [2] it works for the abolition of all existing states. Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason, it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word "justice" into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason—after this said reason has already greatly suffered from exposure to their half-education—and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.
Socialism can serve to teach—in a truly brutal and impressive fashion—what danger there lies in all accumulations of state power, and to that extent to implant mistrust of the state itself. When its harsh voice takes up the watchword "as much state as possible," it thereby at first sounds noisier than ever; but soon the opposite cry comes through with all the greater force: "as little state as possible."

480

Envy and indolence in different directions.— The two opposing parties—the socialist and the nationalist (whatever their names may be in the various countries of Europe)—are worthy of one another: envy and laziness are the moving forces in both of them. In the former camp they want to work as little as possible with their hands. In the latter as little as possible with their heads; in the latter they hate and envy the prominent, self-evolved individuals unwilling to let themselves be enlisted in the ranks for the production of mass effect; in the former the better, outwardly more favoured caste of society whose real task—the production of the supreme cultural values—makes their inner life so much harder and more painful. If, to be sure, the nationalists should succeed in imposing the spirit of the mass effect upon the higher classes of society, then the socialist hordes would be quite justified in seeking to level them with themselves also outwardly, since they would already be level with one another in head and heart. Live as higher men and perform perpetually the deeds of higher culture—to this all that lives admits your right, and the order of society whose summit you are will be proof against every evil eye and evil claw!

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Lurker invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: No. 10 Posts: 3,289	http://dailynietzsche.blogspot.com/2...socialism.html 473 Socialism with regard to its means.— Socialism is the fanciful younger brother of the almost expired despotism whose heir it wants to be—its endeavors are thus in the profoundest sense reactionary; for it desires and abundance of state power such as only despotism has ever had. Indeed, it outbids all the despotisms of the past inasmuch as it expressly aspires to the annihilation of the individual, who appears to it like an unauthorized luxury of nature destined to be improved into a useful organ of the community. On account of its close relationship to them it always appears in the proximity of all excessive deployments of power, as the typical old socialist Plato did at the court of the Sicilian tyrant—it desires, and sometimes promotes, the Caesarian despotic state of the present century because, as aforesaid, it would like to be its heir. But even this inheritance would be inadequate to its purposes: it requires a more complete subservience of the citizen to the absolute state than has ever existed before; and since it can no longer even count on the ancient religious piety towards the state, it has [1] involuntarily to work ceaselessly for its abolition—that is, [2] it works for the abolition of all existing states. Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason, it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word "justice" into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason—after this said reason has already greatly suffered from exposure to their half-education—and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play. Socialism can serve to teach—in a truly brutal and impressive fashion—what danger there lies in all accumulations of state power, and to that extent to implant mistrust of the state itself. When its harsh voice takes up the watchword "as much state as possible," it thereby at first sounds noisier than ever; but soon the opposite cry comes through with all the greater force: "as little state as possible." 480 Envy and indolence in different directions.— The two opposing parties—the socialist and the nationalist (whatever their names may be in the various countries of Europe)—are worthy of one another: envy and laziness are the moving forces in both of them. In the former camp they want to work as little as possible with their hands. In the latter as little as possible with their heads; in the latter they hate and envy the prominent, self-evolved individuals unwilling to let themselves be enlisted in the ranks for the production of mass effect; in the former the better, outwardly more favoured caste of society whose real task—the production of the supreme cultural values—makes their inner life so much harder and more painful. If, to be sure, the nationalists should succeed in imposing the spirit of the mass effect upon the higher classes of society, then the socialist hordes would be quite justified in seeking to level them with themselves also outwardly, since they would already be level with one another in head and heart. Live as higher men and perform perpetually the deeds of higher culture—to this all that lives admits your right, and the order of society whose summit you are will be proof against every evil eye and evil claw!
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