[lit-ideas] Re: WHo is afraid of the anti-egalitarians?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 03:26:40 +0200
Well, if "nobody is seriously against equality today", how come that there
is so little of it ? We all sincerely strive for equality but it's just not
working ?
There must be some people, somewhere, who aren't really that much in favor
of equality.
O.K.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:54 AM, torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx <
torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...or reading Nietzsche backward
>
> Thesis 1: Nietzsche was anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian, and these
> were not minor abberations in his thought but deeply rooted and closely
> connected to his other beliefs.
>
> Thesis 2: Nietzsche was right that egalitarianism would entail a
> "limitless process of levelling" (Bull, "Leveling Out"). The egalitarian
> ideals of the French revolution would have "required elimination of all
> substantive social advantages, generating equality betond mere formal
> conferral of rights" such as is prevalent under liberal political regimes.
>
> Nobody is seriously against equality today. What we usually hear is that
> the disadvantaged should be brought up to the level of those of privilege.
> This is what we should think of as a process of LEVELLING UP.
>
> Thesis 3: Nietzsche was wrong in concluding that because of this levelling
> process, one should adopt a stance AGAINST egalitarianism.
>
> Thesis 4: In reading Nietzsche like a loser (ie. the audience Nietzsche
> did not write for), it is possible to, instead, EMBRACE the levelling
> process, but also to acknowledge that a process of levelling up is not,
> will never be, sufficient. What is recquired is -- CONTRA Nietzsche -- a
> process of levelling DOWN: We should welcome a "regime in which each
> individual, without exclusion or exception, will have equal access to
> property, but no property rights, eiher individual or collective, because
> property as such will not exist" (Malcolm Bull, /Anti-Nietzsche/, 2011,
> p157).
>
> Thesis 5: This is a notion we should refer to not as anti-egalitarianism
> (qua Nietzsche) but EXTRA-egalitarianism.
>
> Yrs,
> T Fjeld
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