Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Will to Power and Oligarchy


Nietzsche's apparent Oligarchism is in part derived from his concept of the Will to Power as aiming at the production of cumulative individuals, i. e. of individuals that comprehend all others.  Now, enthusiasm, both his and that of self-styled 'Nietzcheans' such Fascists and Leo Strauss, tend to ignore that on that concept, the ultimate aim of a music composer is the conductor of the performance of that music.  It also tends to ignore the implication that an apex benefits by cultivating the strata that supports it, resulting in a symbiosis that does not easily reduce to standard classification, including to Oligarchy.  Regardless, also implicit in the concept is that the Will to Power is a species drive, and, so, that the privileging of a type of Political organization is determined by the maximization strengthening of the species.  On that basis, a Nietzschean Oligarchical society is weaker than one in which each individual achieves maximum strength.  

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