A. James Gregor's "Mussolini's Intellectuals"
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Conclusions
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Gather around kids, because it's time for a Marinetti thread.
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Well, no, because "Soviet Futurism" existed. This is something modern liberals/leftists would rather you forget.
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Alternatively, you could watch this for a tl;dr and remember that Dave Marsh was right:
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.
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Highlight: the reason I'm not a fascist
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In particular, bluechecks should note how the preconditions for fascism are such that it's literally impossible to happen in an already-imperial power.
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And yes, that last paragraph IS explicitly talking about 🇨🇳, as stated in the footnotes
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Uh...
yeah...
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.
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Silly Gregor, antifa is for beating the enemies of #wokecapital, actual fascsim has not a single goddamn thing to do with it.
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For instance, "Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism:" (you can't find this on libgen) mega.nz/#!kA0GnZja!hNm…