Why does the far-right like so much the 300 of Sparta?

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Laconophillia became embedded in the ethos of British public schools in the Victorian era (and with it a certain other -phillia). The upper crust of Edwardian Britain were all stamped with what they believed the Spartan mould would look like, and I believe a similar obsession was found in the Prussian cadet schools and the French lycees. (It would probably be an overreach to look at the various noxious social movements like eugenics and military disasters of the Edwardian era and see nothing but the fruits of these spartan experiments coming to fruition, but I can't imagine the mindset helped)

The irony for the right is that the agoge system is one that was explicitly collectivist and hostile to the nuclear family, which is why collectivists on the left often sometimes muse about it themselves. Indeed, the difference between right-Laconism and left-Laonism seemed to be that the former believe this demented lifestyle was actually a privilege that should be enjoyed by the sons of the gentry and new aristocrats, while the latter believed that you could form a comprehensive system that would churn out endless Republican drones.