Oct 31, 2009

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Avant-Garde Fascism

Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939Mark AntliffDurham and London: Duke University Press,  2007Mark Antliff, a professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, has put together a useful analysis of the cultural-aesthetic memes utilized by French fascists of 1909-1939 to promote their visions of national...

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Oct 26, 2009

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Roman Apocalypse:
Cola di Rienzi and the Politics of Proto-Fascism

Ronald F. MustoApocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New AgeBerkeley: University of California Press, 2003A young Italian nationalist leads his followers on a march through Rome, seizing power from corrupt elites to establish a palingenetic regime. Declaring himself Tribune, his ultimate aim is to recreate the power and glory of Ancient Rome. However, a...

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Aug 30, 2009

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Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
Part IV: Pareto and Fascism

Pareto and FascismBefore we enter into the controversy surrounding Pareto’s sympathy for Italian leader Benito Mussolini, let us take pains to avoid the error of viewing events of the 1920s through the spectacles of the post-World War II era, for what seemed apparent in 1945 was not at all evident twenty years before. Inarguably, throughout the whole of the 1920s, Mussolini...

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Jul 28, 2009

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Filippo Marinetti

Filippo Marinetti is unlike most of the post-nineteenth Century cultural avant-garde who were rebelling against the spirit of several centuries of liberalism, rationalism, the rise of the democratic mass, industrialism, and the rule of the moneyed elite. His revolt against the leveling impact of the democratic era was not to hark back to certain perceived ‘golden ages’...

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Jul 16, 2009

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Julius Evola on Tradition and the Right
(La Vera Destra)

Men Among the Ruins:Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalistby Julius EvolaRochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2002Baron Julius Evola (1899-1974) was an important Italian intellectual, although he despised the term. As poet and painter, he was the major Italian representative of Dadaism (1916-1922). Later he became the leading Italian exponent of the intellectually rigorous...

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Jun 17, 2009

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. This warrior bard was to have a crucial impact upon the rise of fascism despite his not always being in...

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