It is untrue that Nietzsche has no politics.
It is just that his politics are unspeakable.
He is a bloody minded brute of the right.
He makes Hamilton look like a wild-eyed democrat.
Human, All Too Human, Part I, section 8, A Look at the State, for example.
See epigram 460, the great man of the masses, for an anticipation of Donald Trump.
In several of his epigrams, Neitzsche anticipates Ortega y Gasset and Marcel.
In others, he parrots apologists of slavery.
See 457, slaves and workers.
But see 462, my utopia.
A utilitarian, malgré lui!
See also 439, culture and caste.
His utopia, it seems, has been common in history.
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