Great Politics

It has become obvious that there is a great lack of understanding here on the subject of what Nietzsche called "Great Politics".

The tendency of some to take Nietzsche as "apolitical" is due to a number of errors, viz;

i) The deliberate post-war attempt by Kaufmann et al., to depoliticise Nietzsche [a philosophical version of that era's "defication" brainwashing].

ii) A superficial misunderstanding of some of Nietzsche's utterances which are only apparently "apolitical"; this misunderstanding is the result of

iv) projecting back the cynical 'politics' of today to Nietzsche's time, as well as;

v) the limpid tendency to regard democracy/liberalism as politics PER SE!

Ultimately this is all down to the inability to make distinctions which so ensnares the Modern.

When Nietzsche attacks the politics of his time he is attacking just that - NOT politics per se.
He is also attacking the idea of poltics as an end in itself, NOT politics as a MEANS to Greater things.

To Nietzsche, politics is meant to be a means only - the means to creating Great Men. That is the kind of politics he espouses - he calls it;

GREAT POLITICS!