Thread by @TAJackson20

Hi, everyone. It's time to finish a book. Over the last couple weeks, we learned what fascism is and, especially, what it is not. It's time to tie all that together in
A. James Gregor's "Mussolini's Intellectuals"
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Conclusions

So, to recap, our understandings of fascism is flawed, fascism wasn't any better or worse than other ideologies, and it's a good thing Gregor has tenure.

Also, we used to be much less retarded at understanding fascism than we are now. Any guesses why that changed?

To reiterate, this is the proper understanding of "What fascism is/was"

Of course, that won't do, because then you conclude with the highlight. And *that* simply won't do when you have to convince black people that Republicans want to put them in death camps every four years.

Gregor himself is kind enough to explain this as ignorance rather than mendacity.

This bears repeating: as great as this book is, there's a reason Gregor's spent 50 years writing others. This is only a brief overview of the subject and there's plenty on LibGen. Read more if you have time.

I'm thinking that that's the exact reason they do this, Gregor. I also think that you know this as well, which makes it excellent concern trolling, good job.

I imagine that he slipped the truth into the footnotes here in hopes that shitlibs wouldn't read it because outright stating that "Evola actually wasn't obsessed with killing brown people" would've gotten him lynched.

"But... violence for its own sake... wasn't there really a fascist who advocated that?" you might be thinking. The answer is: "oh fuck yes."

Gather around kids, because it's time for a Marinetti thread.

Note: Watch this while you read the next couple posts:

Marinetti is one of the most fascinating people in the 20th century. He started street fights at his movement's own theatre shows, invented concrete poetry, and, infamously, invented the concept of sexbots before the word "robot" was even coined. (cf. "Elettricità sessuale")

...And that's not including how he advocated sexual egalitarianism to masculinise women out of contempt for femininity and invented what we now call "neoliberalism," (Futurism ultimately won WWII, few know this)

You think I'm kidding about the last part? Oh no, oh no, no, no. Marinetti was a self-described "liberal extremist," and being a WWI veteran just excited his bloodlust.

Alright, we've found exactly what the liberals have warned us about. Who cares if he was himself a liberal? He wilfully associated with Fascists, doesn't that count?

Well, no, because "Soviet Futurism" existed. This is something modern liberals/leftists would rather you forget.

That purity of purpose is why I admire Marinetti, the man was pure diabolism. No effort to excuse it, he was just a complete maniac who found machine gun fire more beautiful than opera and didn't give a single fuck about your 🏳️‍🌈attempts to justify violence.

I wish I had more time talk about this, but the book is about intellectuals, not artists. If you want to know more about Futurism, @giantgio has some good articles.
Alternatively, you could watch this for a tl;dr and remember that Dave Marsh was right:

...But seriously, Fascism, like every other sane ideology, had a it's own just war theories.

Note the words "sane ideology," because Marinetti, as I mentioned before, was a self-styled liberal extremist, and his movement was utterly sincere about pushing it to the limit.

So, getting back to the point, we can see Mussolini himself denouncing the "violence is its own moral imperative" school of thought that's been ascribed to fascism. He's practically pleading with these lunatics to stop being insane.

The reason Marinetti is so fascinating is that he advocated for basically all the regular progressive policies (not noted here is that he also wanted women having full divorce and working rights) BECAUSE he knew that they'd increase the level of violence in society.

In the end, the man was the epitome of everything I should theoretically hate, but I just can't help but admire a man so willing to put his skin in the game that he serves on the Eastern Front when he's 65 years old. Say what you will, he has that on contemporary warhawks.

Gregor is absolutely unrelenting here. As well he should be, given that he's spent his whole life trying to explain how stupid this is to people who don't listen. (an entire book was written, "The Search for Neofascism," not that it helped)
Highlight: the reason I'm not a fascist

[NB: I don't object to empiricism in principle, but basically all modern empiricism is post-Baconian British Empiricism, which is completely insane. (Maistre wrote an excellent book BTFOing Bacon, I should do a thread on it at some point.)]

We're nearing the end, so it's time for Gregor to lay everything out so straightforwardly that even liberals can understand it.
In particular, bluechecks should note how the preconditions for fascism are such that it's literally impossible to happen in an already-imperial power.

At first, I felt insulted at how patronising this is, but then I remembered that I technically qualify as a LibArts academic, which is the target audience of this book, and we generally deserve this.

I had to stich these pages together because holy shit does Gregor fill the entire page with footnotes to back this up.

Just imagine being a professor able to publish something like this and not being killed by a student mob. 2006 was a different time.

I kind of pity our author. He's spent most of his life trying to explain the most basic things about Fascism to liberals, but their entire existence requires that they fail to understand.

This isn't a figure of speech, by the way. The liberal understanding of fascism is so comically wrong that they've managed to become implicitly-fascist themselves without even noticing it.

And yes, that last paragraph IS explicitly talking about 🇨🇳, as stated in the footnotes

That, by the way, is covered in another of Gregor's books, because of course it is. Read this if you'd like to know more:

(Like I said before, third-worldism is literally Fascism, and understanding fascism accurately would force the liberal-left to confront this, hence the crimestop)

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about that...

This, more than anything else, shows the date of the book. Just imagine not anticipating the imminent return of Austrofascism. The past really is a different country.

But, outside V4 weirdness, Gregor is still generally correct if only because even contemporary would-be fascists are just as misguided as liberals on "what Fascism actually was."

Gregor ends the book with one last pleas for his shitlib audience: "please, you can't smash the fash if you can't even recognise."

Silly Gregor, antifa is for beating the enemies of #wokecapital, actual fascsim has not a single goddamn thing to do with it.

This concludes "Mussolini's Intellectuals." I hope you've learned something important over these last couple months, and I implore you to read more of Gregor's books.
For instance, "Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism:" (you can't find this on libgen) mega.nz/#!kA0GnZja!hNm…