In any case, fascism was reaction made modern; an ideology for the age of nationalism, parties, mass politics, and industrial warfare.
Just yesterday I was thinking for entirely unrelated reasons about how fascism is reaction appropriating modern, contemporary or even futuristic aesthetics and means [and therefore a very tacky form of reaction]. I mean, the artistic movement literally known as Futurism was - perhaps unfortunately - seminal to the development of Fascism.*
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Russian Futurists went in a rather opposite direction - although our horseshoe theorists would say there is no difference - but of course I am talking about the original Italian movements here.
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