> There are traditional elements in everything. All ideas are rooted in the
> past. A totally revolutionary event would, what, get rid of space and time.
> This is Cthulhu rising from R'lyeh and driving us mad.
>
> Fascism appealed to BOTH traditional and revolutionary themes (as,
> incidentally, so did Communism, and everythinng else, since everything is a
> mixture of the perceived past and the anticpated future as seen through on
> another).
>
On one hand, yes, but on the other, that's absolutely trivial. Things can be proportionally new or old, and ideologies can try to ground legitimacy in the past (even if an invented past) or the future. There's something substantive and obvious about the claim that Francisco Franco was a traditionalist and Alexei Gastev was not.
I'm not saying either extreme necessarily applies to the Third Reich. National Socialism was famously incoherent and flexible except on the few issues it really really cared about.