Everything here looks so thoughtful and intentionally curated it feels as if I'm making it lesser by posting something dumb
The board is supposed to be thoughtful and intelligent, but if the site is to have a feeling of activity and community then people should feel that they do not have to effort-post all of the time. Italian fascism is so interesting, simultaneously terrifying and seductive. I never believe someone who says they can't understand the fascist mindset. We all have a little Obergruppenführer hidden somewhere within us.
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Britain's new Homeland Party brings you the hot new ideology of the summer - Woke Strasserism. It's the "land acknowledgements for the Welsh" joke, but unironically. Don't let the red squirrels fool you, this is full-strength ethnonationalism, but dressed up to look like a national trust leaflet.
It's hard to ruin the aesthetics of an imageboard. If you don't like it, you ignore it, and it all turns to dust anyway.
>>1836 >Qvis contra nos? The constitution of Carnaro was a good read, although it was idealistic and... well, batshit crazy. Verbi gratia: "The tenth (corporation) has no special trade or register or title. It is reserved for the mysterious forces of progress and adventure. It is a sort of votive offering to the genius of the unknown, to the man of the future, to the hoped-for idealization of daily work, to the liberation of the spirit of man beyond the panting effort and bloody sweat of to-day." (Nietzschean Übermensch of the sorts.) "[t]here will be inscribed on the walls inspiring words that, like an heroic symphony, will never lose their power to raise and animate the soul." "Every rebirth of a noble race is a lyric force, every sentiment that is common to the whole race, a potential lyric; music, the language of ritual, has power, above all else, to exalt the achievement and the life of man...In the pauses of music is heard the silence of the tenth corporation." However, it was really progressive for its era: >"The province recognizes and confirms the sovereignty of all citizens without distinction of sex, race, language, class, or religion." >"The State does not recognize the ownership of property as an absolute and personal right, but regards it as one of the most useful and responsible of social functions...The only legitimate title to the possession of the means of production and exchange is labour." >"For this cause the Italian province of Carnaro makes education — the culture of her people — the crown and summit of her Constitution, esteems the treasure of Latin culture as the foundation of her welfare" and "The public schools welcome the followers of every religious profession, the believers in every creed and those, too, who are able to live without an altar and without a God." Overall, fascinating stuff.
>>1331 The scorched-earth approach of the post-war order towards all that can be tangentially associated with a pre-Americanized West means that truly aesthetically oriented politics are met with total rejection - merely because of the fascists' recognition and employment of art as power. Naturally this plays very well into the neoliberal hand, where beauty isn't even an afterthought in the face of the upward flow of capital. To be authoritative in regards to aesthetics is tantamount to total evil; only decadent greed is justified, and the beautiful, creatively brilliant, and even naturally wonderful are first to the chopping block if they do not serve a capitalist purpose. There is no place for art for arts' sake in a world where all must exist to satisfy Mammon. It is good to be fascist in regards to aesthetics. It becomes a wholly understandable mindset under the right conditions. Where a neoliberal system thrives from ugliness, it is necessary that we become aesthetic terrorists in response. But it would be justified anyway, because aesthetics always justify themselves.
>>2082 Good post. I feel a lot of this in response to today's American political landscape - I've spent the past year living overseas and it all looks like such a disgusting race to the bottom from far away. The far left and the far right have both absolutely failed to pursue aesthetics in any meaningful way, though. Leftists try to act like art in general is synonymous with the left by default but have aped the same "transgressive" dogshit for nearly a century and still somehow think it's interesting. The right can't do anything today other than jerk off over neoclassical sculptures but couldn't tell you the difference between a Rodin and a Myron. Half of them also fall for the "art is leftist" lie and write it off entirely. I don't think we're ever going to see another Dos Passos or Lampedusa again.