Time for a thread on actually ellaborating on Fascism as an ideology. Inspired by a conversation with @artist_tyrant
Fascism as Anti-Dogma/The Right as the eternal enemy of Fascism
What really differentiates us Fascists from Communists or Capitalists? Is Fascism a dogmatic ideology? Should we actually quote Gentile as a god among men and take everything by the book?
Fascism as an idea is opposed to a dogma, and this can be explained through...
a very simple dialectic I want to explain today, Fascism is both relativism and objectivism at the same time. There is an universal truth to Fascism, but said truth will be arrived at in different manners, that is, through the development of ones ideology in ones Nation.
Everything is useful to Fascism as long as it is with the objective of achieving Fascist goals. We can be traditionalists or anti-tradition, imperialist or anti-imperialists, centralized or decentralized, religious or agnostic (never atheists), etc.
When people point out at how the Integralists opposed the Axis I can only say, so what? They are Brazilian integralists, it is not their duty to defend european Fascism even if its desireable. When people point out at massive privatization in the regime of the Austrian Painter...
I can only say, so what? We Fascists must see everything as ideal, even the material reality we see is an ideal reality and no matter how much we try to twist that, everything we experience is an idea, a qualia, no matter how you put it. The material conditions are irrelevant...
it is the overall view of the material what is important to us, privatization or not is irrelevant as long as the right ideas are there and the complete subversion of the system that otherwise abussive, has been changed through the mere power of how ideas are structured.
For Fascism, Capitalism is not just private ownership of the means of production, that's nothing but a reductive materialist point of view. Capitalism is an ideal projected onto the means of production in which workers reside, it is not a soulless material abstraction.
It is men, projecting their ideas into their property, just like José Antonio Primo de Rivera said, it is not that private property is evil by itself, but it is men projecting onto their property what may corrupt it depending on the approach.
The idea of Fascism was meant to be absolute and relative at the same time, regardless of what some nutjobs want you to think. We are not dogmatic puritans to dig ourselves into theory and treat it like the bible like Communists do...
if we were to do that, we would be hopping between ideologies as leftists do. "Well, Lenin said this so you're wrong", "Wait, wait wait, but Trotsky said this", "Hah guys, Marx wrote this on a letter on 1856 so I'm right", etc, etc, etc.
What Gentile wrote is what Gentile wrote, if a Fascist nation decides to ignore an aspect or head its own path through its philosophers in order to build their theory up, so be it. Gentile although an essential read on Fascism, is not really our Marx.
Gentile is to Fascism what we may want him to be, his ideas are eternal and a basis for us, what we do after that is up to us. Italian Fascism was a hegelian totalitarian imperial idea, NatSoc was a fichtean racialist state idea, Falangism was an...
universal religious imperial idea, Ba'athism was an arabic anti-imperial dream, etc. We hold onto the same basis of pragmatic ideas but in the end how we build the ideology is up to us. This is where the Right wing comes into play...
The Right Wing has proven to be a very flawed ally whenever Fascism tried to exist. Always joining Fascism when its convenient to them, and betraying the idea once the boat may sink or they start to dislike the revolutionary discourse, the Right has...
proved to be as dangerous if not far more than the left. The Right sees value in Fascism as long as Fascism serves its interests, a main example of this is Julius Evola praising Fascism for its potential but not really joining the cause.
Or like what happened in Mussolini's Italy, when Mussolini started practicing anti-right wing policies, all of the liberals and conservatives that joined the party to stop the Red Terror, started leaving and joined the opposition.
Either you convert a right winger or you're allowing the subversion of our ideas, it's one of those two. All of the tradcath groypers that pretend to like Fascism, are just seeking excuses to be needlessly reactionary and authoritarian, when truth of the matter is...
Fascism acts in the ways it does because it seeks Fascism, not because we seek the methods we use as the end goal. Same applies for WNs or JQ believers, they don't believe in Fascism, if anything, they try to use "Fascism" as a way to...
seek their wacky random policies, thus we should always separate ourselves from those nutjobs.
In the end, we must ask ourselves the following questions:
Being traditional is just a means to an end for Fascism, we do not care about your traditions nor past values, we care about the values we seek to establish, and if your traditions get in the way, then they'll be changed. That's really it.
If you join Fascism to be merely a racist reactionary homophobe incel that owns the Libs, then congrats, you never joined Fascism. I'm not saying Fascists can't be that way (except being an Incel), but some unironically just join Fascism with that sole purpose...
without realizing that they have little to nothing in common with Fascism.
To get to a conclusion, Fascism was born to be anti-dogmatic and a relative absolute idea, whatever policies a Fascist Nation pursuits can be justified if the end goal is Fascism...
beware of this statement tho, because it doesn't mean we have to agree with them or they shouldn't be criticized, but if a Fascist tries to purity spiral himself into going "NOOO THEY DIDNT DO WHAT GENTILE SAID IN O&D OF FASCISM PAGE 45", then...
we must point out his puritanism and disregard whatever Fascist ideas he may hold, because anti-dogmatism/intellectualism itself is one of the core tenants of proper Fascist Philosophy.
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The thread WILL NOT dig itself into explaining the point of view of different Idealist philosophers nor jump around the thousands of writings regarding the topic. My objective is to give an overall explanation of Idealism as a whole, and its importance on the Fascist worldview.
Idealism in the philosophical understanding of the world, is the denial of the existence of the material world with the proposal that everything we see and experience is an Idea, that is, a mental experience. There's no material world beyond our ideas, nothing but ideas.