Making the connections, > Neitszche > Yellow Tiger > Napoleon > Ride the Tiger > Evola, I turn to Evola's comments on 'Bonapartism'.
'Bonapartism' can only be compared to what I call 'Napoleonism' in Nietzsche as it is not identical, but very close.
Those areas where Evola finds Bonapartism wanting can be seen as the necessary differences with Napoleonism in some cases.
"Bonapartism represents a despotism based on a democratic view, which it denies 'de facto' while fulfilling it in theory".
[J. Evola, 'Bonapartism', from 'Men Among the Ruins']
"In Bonapartism a small number of rulers or a leader pretend to represent the people and to speak and to act on behalf of them ...
Regimes of this type are often legalised democratically through the techniques of the plebiscite: once this happens, the formula of the people's self government or similar formulas ... are employed to destroy or ultimately to restrict those individual rights and those particular freedoms that were originally associated with the idea of democracy..."
[ib.,]
Obious reference to fascism here.
"Thus ... theoretically speaking, the Bonapartist leader may be considered the perfect embodiment of the democratic type; in his despotism, it is as if the omnipotent people led and disciplined themselves ...
The historical antecedents of Bonapartism are well-known: the popular tyrannies that arose in ancient Greece after the decline of previous aristocratic regimes; the tribunes of the people in ancient Rome; various princes and even 'condottiere' [i.e., leaders of mercenary troops in the 14th - 15th centuries] who lived at the time of the Renaissance ...".
Nietzsche would broadly agree here.
"Machiavelli's 'prince' ... naturally ... does not believe in the 'people' and does not care to become acquainted with the passions ans elementary reactions of the masses in order to use them to his advantage and to exercise an adequate method of governing.
However, his authority no longer comes 'from above': its foundation is mere strength, which is the 'virtus' of the prince.
Power, as pure power of a man, is the ultimate end; everything else, spiritual and religious factors included, is only a means to be employed without any scruples ..."
[ib.,]
Nietzsche's Eternal Return will become the 'authority from above' which Eola finds lacking in Bonapartism.
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