1. An erstwhile contrarian radical who hates PC SJW hipsters decides to defend a right-wing buffoon. But he knows there is no positive case to be made so he confines himself to attacking critics of the buffoon. I"m talking of course of Wyndham Lewis' anti-anti-Hitler stance.
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2. Wyndham Lewis' political writings are orphaned, passed over in silence even by those who (rightly) admire his paintings & novels. And its true that Lewis' period as a Nazi fellow-traveller in1930s is indefensible. But in many ways he's a prophetic figure.
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3. Thing to understand about Lewis's politics is a) he was no conservative but a radical critic of ruling class & b) he was cagey enough not to be pro-Hitler but rather positioned himself as anti-anti-Hitler. Hitler had his faults, Lewis admitted, but his critics were worse
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In this, Lewis reflects a tendency of anti-bourgeois radical voices in Germany that in the 1920s gradually became more and more openly Nazi supporters.
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