Editing Übermensch (section)

== Anarchism ==
The thought of Nietzsche had an important [[Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche|influence on anarchist authors]]. [[Spencer Sunshine]] writes:

{{blockquote|There were many things that drew anarchists to Nietzsche: his hatred of the state; his disgust for the mindless social behavior of 'herds'; his anti-Christianity; his distrust of the effect of both the market and the State on cultural production; his desire for an 'overman' – that is, for a new human who was to be neither master nor slave; his praise of the ecstatic and creative self, with the artist as his prototype, who could say, 'Yes' to the self-creation of a new world on the basis of nothing; and his forwarding of the 'transvaluation of values' as source of change, as opposed to a Marxist conception of class struggle and the dialectic of a linear history.<ref name="anarchonietzche">{{Cite web |url=https://radicalarchives.org/2010/05/18/nietzsche-and-the-anarchists/ |title=Spencer Sunshine: "Nietzsche and the Anarchists" (2005) |website=radicalarchives.org |date=18 May 2010}}</ref>}}

The influential American anarchist [[Emma Goldman]], in the preface of her famous collection ''[[Anarchism and Other Essays]]'', defends both Nietzsche and [[Max Stirner]] from attacks within anarchism when she says

{{blockquote|The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality. Friedrich Nietzsche, for instance, is decried as a hater of the weak because he believed in the {{lang|de|Übermensch}}. It does not occur to the shallow interpreters of that giant mind that this vision of the {{lang|de|Übermensch}} also called for a state of society which will not give birth to a race of [[Master-slave morality|weaklings and slaves]].<ref name="goldman">{{cite book |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anarchism_and_Other_Essays |title=Anarchism and Other Essays |first=Emma |last=Goldman |author-link=Emma Goldman |date=1911 |publisher=Mother Earth Publishing Association |edition=Second Revised}}</ref>}}

Sunshine says that the "Spanish anarchists also mixed their class politics with Nietzschean inspiration." [[Murray Bookchin]], in ''[[The Spanish Anarchists]]'', describes prominent Catalan CNT member [[Salvador Seguí]] as "an admirer of Nietzschean individualism, of the {{lang|ca|superhome}} to whom 'all is permitted{{'"}}. Bookchin, in his 1973 introduction to [[Sam Dolgoff]]'s ''[[The Anarchist Collectives]]'', even describes the reconstruction of society by the workers as a Nietzschean project. Bookchin says that

{{blockquote|workers must see themselves as human beings, not as class beings; as creative personalities, not as 'proletarians', as self-affirming individuals, not as 'masses'&nbsp;... [the] economic component must be humanized precisely by bringing an 'affinity of friendship' to the work process, by diminishing the role of onerous work in the lives of producers, indeed by a total 'transvaluation of values' (to use Nietzsche's phrase) as it applies to production and consumption as well as social and personal life.<ref name="anarchonietzche"/>}}