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I know, evil... It vies for my soul. I read the capital, by-the-by. It's been an interesting read though I found the aboundant description of human exploitation interesting but also quite annoying - there was too much of it. But I enjoyed Marx' analysis of political economy; did you already read it?

Mhm, I used to... Though I find his work overrated. There are certainly essential thoughts in his books but I have come to dislike him a lot for his open and almost ardent misogyny, his strong dislike for democracy and other institutional forms of reign (he fears them beecause of their normative and totalitarian potential). In general it seems to me, that Nietzsche doesn't have a lot to offer, aside from the will to power (in my mind his philosophy is essentially a method of self-empowerment), the brilliant god-is-dead-concept (which is really good), several tiny remarks that are interesting but cannot be named like that, his works on ascetiscm and ressentemism; with Nietzsche, I always feel as though I am missing something when I read him - and his Pathos, arrogance and self-conviction can become quite annoying; his notorious hatred for "morales" is interesting and often true but sometimes it's disputable, not to say nonsense. However his analysis of Christianity as something inherenlty nihilist is brilliant. What have you read by him? I'd recommend "Beyond Good and Evil" and "the gay science".

Well, if you dislike the aphoristic structure you're doomed, I'd say. He always wrote like that (except for Zarathustra, I guess).

I've read that book as well. It's aphoristic, too, though structured yes. His approach could be described as semi-straight-forward; I find it noteworthy to highlight the difficulty of translating his work, so maybe the English version is entirely different; Genealogie der Moral seemed fascinating to me and it didn't surprise me that Foucault picked up the thread Nietzsche put down with this book, however, I do think that you might be disappointed with it: a good deal is well-known ravaging directed against slave morales et al.