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According to Nietzsche socialism is a "residue" of christianity, what does he meant and is it true?

Nietzsche talked about socialism as a later development of christianity. Did he mean that there is an actual "genealogical" filliation between Christianism and Socialism? Or did he mean that both "doctrines" promoted similar values without one being the descendant from the other?

And what can modern philosophers say of this assertion? Was Nietzsche right to think that?

Thank you in advance for your answers!
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Hard to say. Nietzsche has a strong critique of the egalitarian nature of socialism and in this regard it seems to resemble what Nietzsche understands to be the issue with Christianity. I’m not entirely sure if he writes that Socialism springs from Christianity, but it somewhat follows his logic of the development of the sciences. 

He also interestingly points out in the *Genealogy* 1:5 that the “commune...[is] ... the most primitive form of society” and that the “inclination” for the commune is “now shared by all the socialists of Europe...”. It could be that, from Nietzsche’s understanding, the communal nature of humanity actually predates religiosity.