Why does fascism in general seem like a larp on a national level? Even back then, it's always felt like grown boys roleplaying.
>>18449585Because no one has an idea what fascism even is . This was intentionally done in the post war world order in order to create a foundational myth that is simple and easy for even retarded normies to get.fascism = "bad guys"
>>18449585most militaristic stuff, as well as war has always been grown boys roleplaying
Hitler was the worst thing to happen to fascism. Actual Italian fascism was fine on its own, if not an ideal system by any means.
National socialism isn't fascism but they are similar enough to where people lump them together.National socialism seeks to secure private property and abolish banking scamsFascism is some kind of autistic mix of secularism with spiritualism. You can basically tell it had contentions with the church while having to work with the church. The good parts are both ideologies being anti-democracy
>>18449585Because that's what it tends to be.I'd highly reccommend Julius Evola's, "Fascism Viewed from the Right." He was a supporter in theory of fascism but he was very rightly critical of aspects of it and National Socialism.One of the things he criticizes, to simplify, is that it was a LARP. It ignored what most of the people who adopted it actually were and instead super-imposed a new identity in purely materialist terms.
>>18449585Because it's more of a vibe and not an ideology. It's predicated on aura farming.I disagree with Umberto Eco on multiple points but he's overall correct when he describes fascism as a collection of vibes. Some fascists will admit the same thing.
>>18449712Though Schmitt, an admitted National Socialist himself did not explicitly condemn democracy, and saw it as a viable alternative to liberalism, the latter of which he saw as an Enlightenment outgrowth and the former with roots in the Greek classical world. But he probably nicked that from Leo Strauss.
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>>18449987Kim Il Sung > Hitler
>>18449690Italy was way more corrupt and dysfunctional.
>>18449585>dude just be a cog in the machine lmaoMeanwhile the top dogs live cushy lives. Same as every regime.
>>18449585Because it was supposed to emulate the grandness of ancient Rome and you would have Mussolini doing the jawmaxxed rizz face.
>>18449987Nah I'm not a fascist I actually prefer parliamentary democracy but I also prefer fascism to communism and both of the aforementioned systems to nazism.
>>18449712Fascism and national socialism had some big differences, but I think both of them were bound up in the concept of "unity." In Italy it was common for radical political groups to call themselves fascios (or leagues). So it could also mean league-ism. I also read it as an offshoot of socialism but it's not materialistic and the fascists rested the ideology in philosophical idealism (like the "spirit" and the "will") and spiritual concepts which was hardened as a result of World War I. It's really cliche to use Starship Troopers as an example but I read "A History of Fascism" by Stanley Payne and by the end, I was like, okay they wanted to be Starship Troopers basically. It's like great people don't build empires, people BECOME great by building empires and it's unity and loyalty and DUTY and BRAVERY that makes life worth living and to explore and conquer and all that great shit:https://youtu.be/CIGHCoVzqtkAlso in Germany there was the concept of the Volksgemeinschaft which would be a racially unified community working towards the same goal.>>18450016Italian fascism was much tamer to live under than the Nazis or the communists in the USSR. They only executed like 20 people from their takeover of power to World War II and they were mostly Slovenian partisans iirc.
The comment about Italian fascism being relatively tame meant for >>18450100They never managed to veer into full totalitarianism. Nazi Germany was more similar to the USSR in that respect than it was to Italian fascism, especially late in the war.
