Slaves’ revolt in morality

The Genealogy is a subversive book that needs to be read with great care. It contains provocative imagery of blond beasts of prey and of the Jewish slave revolt in morality which can easily mislead the unwary reader about the nature of Nietzsche s immoralism. In the preface, Nietzsche mentions the importance of readers familiarizing themselves with his previous books - throughout the book he refers to various sections and aphorisms from them, and occasionally he makes partial citations from them. The critique of morality Nietzsche carries out in the book is a complex one its nuances are lost if one extracts isolated images... 

The Jews - a people born for slavery , as Tacitus and the whole ancient world says, the chosen people among peoples as they themselves say and believe - the Jews brought about that miracle of a reversal of values, thanks to which life on earth received a new and dangerous attraction for a few thousand years - their prophets have smelted rich , godless , evil , violent and sensual into one and coined the word world as a term of abuse for the first time. In this reversal of values (in which it is right and proper to use the word poor as a synonym for holy and friend ) lies the importance of the Jewish people with them begins the slaves revolt in morality. 

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