so huey p. newton was a reader of friedrich nietzsche. and in nietzsche he discovered a lot of things, but what he understood from nietzsche is he needed nietzsche to tell him that the things that your culture tell you are true and are universal it's, in fact, made up. or it's a product of history, it's a product of chance, it's somewhat arbitrary, but it's not true. and so don't take the voice of a racist culture as the voice of your own inner conscience. and for huey p. newton, this is what nietzsche did for african-americans, is to help them hear that they no longer had to pray to the white man's god, make themselves process strait to -- prostate to a religion -- [inaudible] as something universal, as something timeless. so huey p. newton is really intellectually, if you will, cutting his teeth on nietzsche as he and bobby seale are coming together and formulating the basis of black power. >> host: world war ii. >> guest: the reason why i sigh is there are -- i don't know of any other philosopher in

when i was growing up, he would buy me copies of emma goldman's autobiography or huey newton's revolutionary suicide. he was constantly going to cuba when i was growing up. i knew all about che guevara. i was brought up in a house where my dad's commandments, he had two, were confront authority and be interesting. >> confront authority and be interesting. and did he encourage rebellion? >> i think even the most rebellious of parents never really wants a rebellious child. but he definitely taught me to think about the world in this very sharp and skeptical way. >> and so maybe it's in the blood. and that sorta leads me back to the title of your book, "drawing blood," this sense of rebellion. so after high school, you go to europe. and you do what i think for a lot of would be bohemians is a dream. you find a home of sorts in that famous bookstore shakespeare and company. >> oh god... >> tell me about that. >> of course i'd known about shakespeare and company. it's a legendary english language parisian bookstore where basically, ne'er do well artists and writers could sleep there. we were call

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so huey p. newton is cutting his teeth of nietzsche as he and bobby seal are coming together to form the basis of black power. >> host: world war ii. >> guest: the reason why i sigh is -- i don't know of any other philosopher in history that is blamed for two world wars, but nietzsche was. so, you can't just quickly -- world war ii i think is the more interesting story here. because all the ways in which nietzsche's reputation is just so terribly damaged. just quickly if i may, world war i, nietzsche -- when world war i breaks out and this is so shocking to american observers, it starts to come out, it's nietzsche, it's nietzsche, rumors german ministers preaching nietzsche from their pulpits. it wasn't hard to listen and hear traces of nietzschean philosophy between the imperial ism overmany during world war i, to to nietzsche is yoked to world war i and has a very hard time -- those who whatnot to try to save his reputation and say this wasn't what he intended, this is just a misuse of nietzsche, had