There were a handful of genuine fascists (Nazi variety) of the thug variety, the mentioned Ernst Junger aside (well worth reading!), who were really creative by the highest standard. Heidegger. Carl Schmitt. Leni Riefenstahl, unless you believe her Sergeant Schulz story. (That she wasn't an ideologue.) Then there was Celine, but I don't know whether he was a real fascist or just a total misanthrope. He doesn't seem to have hated the Jews especially, at least not more than he hated everyone else.
--- Mark Bennett <mab at straussandasher.com> wrote:
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> Chris Doss wrote
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> --- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Right wingers are naturally attracted to fascist
> views because they are
> emotionally and cognitively crippled and use fascist
> ideology as a
> mental crutch. Specifically, these are the people
> who for whatever
> physiological or psychological reasons do not handle
> very well
> uncertainty, ambiguity and unfamiliar situations.
>
> ---
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> Actually the Fascists (with a capital "F") were
> associated with
> experimentalism, dynamism, and futurism, and had
> genuine, and I add
> extremely innovative, artists -- Pound, D'Annunuzio,
> Junger. We need a
> different word for the people you're talking about
> (maybe Thuggist).
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