A common reactions I get when I tell people I study fascism is, "oh, do you study far-left authoritarianism too ACCUSATORY GLARE" There's a lot to unpack there, but let's start here: "Oh, you study cancer? Do you study heart disease too, or are you just a big hypocrite?"
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It's a sort of intellectual virus that erodes the adherent's ability to think and to perceive the world And I think that's fascinating
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Final thought: of "I study fascism" feels like a personal attack, it might be worth meditating on why that's the case
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Yeah, I'm not buying that. Fascism is an ideology, but it is more rooted in aesthetics than politics. Mussolini's manifesto of Fascism read like an artistic manifesto. There very much IS a literature of Fascism. It's Pound, Spengler, the conservative..
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...revolution, Wagner.
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