Coping with cancer, Chavez contemplates Nietzsche/ Frente al cáncer, Chávez contempla Nietzsche

"I'm quoting Nietzsche and also expressing my agreement with those maxims of philosophy and life: to transform the world," Chavez said. Chavez, however, seems to be bending Nietzsche's concepts to suit his own socialist ideology, expanding on the "overman" idea with his own call to create "the socialist man, the socialist woman, the socialist society." "It's a kind of bizarre turn of events that he would be so interested in a thinker who is so virulently anti-socialist and anti-egalitarian," said Robert B. Pippin, a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago ( more...)/ "Estoy citando a Nietzsche, y expresando mi acuerdo con esas máximas de filosofía y vida: transformar el mundo", dijo Chávez. Chávez, sin embargo, parece estar estirando conceptos de Nietzsche para adaptarse a su propia ideología socialista, ampliando la idea del "superhombre" con su propio llamado a crear "el hombre socialista, la mujer socialista, la sociedad socialista." "Es una extraño giro de los acontecimientos saber que él iba a estar tan interesado en un pensador que es tan virulentamente anti-socialista y anti-igualitario", dijo Robert B. Pippin, un profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Chicago