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>>21846306
tactical antisemitism to undermine christianity.
just like suggested jewishness of wagner's father.

meanwhile he attacked every significant author or populist movement that resisted jewish power: dühring, the various emerging populist and anti-liberal movements in switzerland and austria, especially after the financial crashes of 1870s. there were already several little proto-mussolinis and proto-hitlers making moves, getting greeted with "heil führer". nietzsche bonded with burckhardt not only over his interpretation of ancient greece and renaissance but because of his disdain of swiss populists which he channeled in those lectures/books. in austria the nationalists chose wagner, liszt and bruckner as their revolutionary "soundtrack". and nietzsche sided with jewish liberal establishment and "their" soundtrack: brahms... until brahms ignored a letter and nietzsche became his enemy too.

>>19062826
austria gets new constitution and enacts liberal reforms at the end of 1860s
after a short financial boom there is a massive world financial crash in 1873, and it started in vienna.
the reaction to this is antiliberal and antisemitic. german nationalism rises, schönerer is already greeted with "heil führer".
freud & co experience this as teenagers, their world slips away after a short triumph.
in 1880s the atmosphere becomes more charged and irrational. the right wing is actually more progressive while the liberals are culturally conservative/classicist and to the public they appear dreadfully rational. even control of all the main newspapers doesnt move the needle for liberals, they are naive and unprepared. zionists are getting ready to emigrate, similar reaction seems to happen everywhere, dreyfus-scandal in france, growing anti-jewish consciousness in germany...
by 1897 they have lost most power and the austrian politics are dominated by nationalists and socialists.
the formerly proud members of an elite class find themselves to be almost declassé, and go to the woodshed for a postmortem analysis.
they re-emerge not as young rebels of an innovative and invigorating vienna coffeehouse culture, that was already the role of romantic nationalists during the previous 30 years. it's an "i'm putting together a team" sequel to an older franchise. they copy and amplify the previously dismissed progressive cultural elements of the enemy, and features which they don't want to adapt they will deconstruct via psychoanalysis.