Philosophy

Was Nietzsche a Capitalist or Communist?

Philosophize with a sickle and hammer…or Das Kapital

Brad
5 min readJan 8, 2022

--

Photo by Alvaro Calvo on Unsplash

The quick answer: Capitalist

The fun answer: Marxist/Communist

The real answer: Neither

Let’s take a look:

Capitalism

Nietzsche supports capitalism because it is a resilient system that keeps moving, evolving, and changing no matter what society and history throws at it for the last few hundred years. Ideally, capitalism is a prime example of the “will”, since individual desires compete against each other in a marketplace for dominance. Anywhere there is competition and conflict, there is innovation.

“There is will to power where there is life and even the strongest living things will risk their lives for more power. This suggests that the will to power is stronger than the will to survive.”

Sound like a system we know, hehe?

Photo by Leipzig Free Tours on Unsplash

Fukayama’s famous book, “The End of History and the Last Man” argues that capitalism is the final system for our civilization. Look no further…

--

--