Nietzsche to the workers of Europe: Run away!

Nietzsche's post-World War Two apologists, perhaps starting with Walter Kaufmann who found him guilty all the same of sexism, insist up to our own day that he is no anti-Semite, no German nationalist, no ethnic nationalist in any sense, he is a man without politics, and certainly no racist.

That is what they say.

You should be your own judge.

Here, he declaims against the condition of the working masses of Europe as a dreadful slavery.

But socialism, he says, would be another kind of slavery.

"Don't rebel," he says. "Run away!"

He urges the flight of 25% (his exact percentage) of the European population to the colonies, where he looks forward to seeing how European colonial societies might develop as glorious examples for old Europe!

Meanwhile, if Europe wished to replace the lost labor it ought to import "Chinamen" (the translator's English for what, exactly, in the German, I wonder) who, in his eyes more suited to such a social fate, Nietzsche says would give Europe the stability it now lacks and much needs.

Nietzsche, aphorism 206, The Dawn, The impossible class

He often in his books comments on the Asiatic stability of Chinese civilization.

But not with admiration.