Do you think Nietzsche's philosophy was a prototype for fascism?

Question

It really wasn't.People hear the word "power" and automatically assume it's about controling others.Another thing that perverted his writings was that his sister,who was married to a national socialist,took editorial control and misconstrued his words to use as fodder for the nazis as were
many other things.Here's a quote,"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. "As you see,the feeling put across isn't control of others.It's about being your own master.Many anarchists take him as one of their own due to his emphasis of the free individual.Nietzsche dealing more with philosophy,where anarchists take it to the political level.When he says that not everyone is created equal,he means that many do not have the strength to take power,though he would like them to.

"I listened for an echo,but only heard praise.

Answer 1

No, I think that the Nazis misconstrued and misused his writings to benefit their own agenda. There are numerous mis-applications that can be applied to his writings. If you read through most of his writings you find someone "troubled" with rise of the "everyman", yet above all he affirms "human existence" - that we must strive to become greater than we are, than just the sons of our father's, by creating a life as it was one that we could "eternally return" to re-live in all its glory and yet all its mundaneness. This was a call to make something of yourself - to live a virtuous life worth living.

Reading through certain aspects of "The Will to Power" will give readers only one sense of what he was about...

Take the heading from Zarathustra's "How to philosophize with a hammer" and you may think it is about destroying all things you disagree with - when in fact he meant to use the hammer to strike a bell - as you would with various maxims and morals - to see if they ring true!

Answer 2

O.k. I hear what your saying and you make a persuasive argument, however its context is completely out of phase. If you don't ind me saying you have answered your own question I agree Nietzsche's philosophy was not by any shape or means a prototype for fascism, but you really should be concentrating on the fact that is was just a philosophy and can be interpreted a hundred different ways and neither interpretation is either wrong or right, it is an opinion and nothing else.