And neither Hitler and Reagan had any talent!
We're talking artistic creativity here, the Cantos of Ezra Pound vs. the Collected Op Eds of Charles Krauthammer.
--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
> Creativity and thuggishness are not
> "contradictories" , are they ?
> The fascists were in the "great" tradition of
> Alexander. Capitalism is
> essentially creative thuggishness, creative
> destruction. Hitler was an
> artist. Reagan was an artist.
>
> Charles
>
> ^^^^^^
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen:
> Unfortunately for the creative fascists, the thug
> ones
> stole the name. Many people think the same thing
> happened with the Communists.
>
> 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.
>
>
> > Chris Doss wrote
>
> > 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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