There’s this ongoing, annoying, but perhaps inevitable thing going around where people are trying to synthesize Marx and Nietzsche; or to show how Nietzsche can be made compatible with “the Left” (whatever that is supposed to signify). Marx and Nietzsche (along with Freud, but thankfully he is increasingly left out of this, aside from the braindead “Lacanian Leftists” who refuse to go away) are the two foremost critics of modernity, but they are so obviously on extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum, that cross-pollination between them makes little sense. Yet their stature as being the two main critics of modernity, whose work not only endures but seems to be proven right with each passing year, causes them to return together in this kind of sought-after fusion.
Fuck, now I'm gonna have to think about this for a while.
The subjectivity-objectivity dialectic.