Igor Ivanovich Garin. Nietzsche (№ 419822)

Burckhardt, this admirer of the Renaissance and singer of personality, was impressed by Nietzsche's warning against socialism, which “longs for the fullness of state power that only the most extreme despotism possessed, and it even surpasses the entire past in that it seeks the formal destruction of the individual; the latter seems to him an unlawful luxury nature, and he wants to reform it, turning it into an expedient organ of the collective.