Amazing how old contrarian language is. Came across a 1935 Wyndham Lewis article complaining about the "repressive 'left-wing' orthodoxy" in British culture (by which Lewis mean people critical of his view that Hitler was peace-loving gent that England should ally itself with)
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Diving into Wyndham Lewis' work again, by the way, convinces me that we need a more deeply rooted history of post-leftism & paleo-conservatism. A lot of those tendencies already evident in 1930s "revolutionary conservatives" (a now largely forgotten formation)
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What's interesting about Wyndham Lewis is he's an early example of how obsessive contrarian owning of liberalism can lead to reaction. He almost literally joked his way into being a fascist sympathizer.
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I just read the Wikipedia entry on him and he seems to have renounced his pro-fascist pro-hitler views after visiting Germany. So his inner-liberal eventually came out on top
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Yeah, he became something of a supporter of the New Deal.
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