Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode I have another

wonderful episode for you, really excited to share this one. This is with Professor Matt

Nick Manis and his new collection of essays entitled Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

essays on liberalism, socialism and aristocratic radicalism. Really interesting deep dive on Nietzsche

has a fundamentally reactionary thinker. We talk about how even though he is a reactionary

thinker, many right-wing forces who try to appropriate him, get him fundamentally wrong

from the Nazis to Jordan Peterson and to Nash D'Souza. We talk about how the Left has tried

to use him to various levels of success and failure and we just talk about Nietzsche's

criticisms of Christianity, how they dovetail with this criticism to liberal democracy and

socialism and communism. You know, the death of God and his predictions for the forms

that nihilism will take and is just a very interesting, fascinating conversation about

a fascinating figure and really focusing on his actual politics and how they cash out

in real life. I couldn't ask for a better guess either. We have a really, really fun,

engaging conversation. So without further ado, here is our episode with Matt Nick Manis

on his new book about Nietzsche has a fundamentally reactionary political thinker. Enjoy.

My name is Matt Nick Manis. I'm a lecturer at the University of Michigan in the Department

of Political Science and I'm the author of a couple of different books. The one we're

here to talk about today is a collection I edited called Nietzsche and the Politics

of Reaction and the people are interested in that. You can also check out my new book,

The Political Right and Equality, Turning Back the Tidey of the Galitarian Modernity that

should become not in a few months for Rutledge Press. Oh nice. Yeah, very excited to dive

into that next book of yours. But this one, Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction, is

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