Taking delight in discussing Nietzsche’s ideas, the radicals also treasured volumes of his work among their personal possessions, and his books figured prominently in their gifts to one another. In their desire to institute the collective control of the nation’s economic production, they shared a thinker who showed them that the real wealth of any commonwealth is its native intellect. Giving a Nietzsche volume to someone symbolized socialist solidarity, as Mabel Dodge Luhan demonstrated when she gave the young IWW organizer Frank Tannenbaum a copy of Nietzsche to bolster his political will as
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