New Myth, New World - Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer (Fordham University)

The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. Communists also used and misused Nietzsche, labelling Nietzsche the "philosopher of fascism," while appropriating his ideas. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas that became a vital ingredient of Bolshevism and Stalinism.