The Nazis were a few philosophical steps down from Nietzsche, but I only learned recently that Nietzsche himself started out greatly admiring American Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 1884, Nietzsche described Emerson as, “a glorious, great nature, rich in soul and spirit” and pronounced Emerson to be, “the author who has been the richest in ideas in this century.”
Please explain. What specifically did he like about Emerson?
Nietzsche was a lot like Marx. Both were pretentious and vastly overrated ne’er-do-wells who accomplished nothing of note during their lives, living by the largess of their betters, only to become bizarrely venerated by socialists, academics pseudo-intellectuals after their deaths.