Why was Coriolanus Shakespeare's most popular play with fascists who read it simply as him being a great hero when he hates the labor class and champions the patricians whose main source of income was usury and enslavement of debtors and who were price-gouging labor by hoarding food at the outset which he praises, since it forces poor farmers, who frequently didn't own the land they ploughed, into deeper and deeper debt just to eat? Coriolanus isn't even a patriot, he betrays his country and works with an invading army to destroy everything except telling them to spare the wealth and property of the patricians?Yet fascists said he was the hero that embodied their movement? IdgiIf we look at Plutarch's biography, which Plutarch pairs with Alcibiades, Plutarch says the Coriolanus was effeminate and behaved like a woman in being so emotional, since to be masculine means being level-headed and taking into account the common good and listening to the complaints of others with patience
I‘ve never known actual fascists to care for it. Eliot being the historic example may have had some fascist sympathies but leaned more anglo-whiggish. Among the fascists I‘ve known it was only the tradcath deradicalization sperg hanging on the periphery who tried to convince us of how great it was.
>>25261268I'm talking about actual fascists of the interwar era on the continental, among whom it was quite popular
>>25261256Fascists are Roman Empire LARPing liberals.
