I’m actually wondering, Did the futurist movement have any inherent tendencies that led it to fascism?
Yes. In Italian Futurism’s own manifesto it spoke of burning down libraries, abolishing compassion and tenderness in all its forms, and destroying anything feminine in society in favor of phallic masculine imagery of rockets and cars everywhere. It was like a practice run for the kind of shit preached generations later.
If what you’re telling me is right, this techbro wet dream of a manifesto feels as ridiculous as Ted Unabomber telling us about the inferiority complex of the Left…
It’s like the futurist movement in post-WW1 Italy that later got absorbed by fascism, but instead of airplanes they worship Elon Musk.
I’m actually wondering, Did the futurist movement have any inherent tendencies that led it to fascism?
Yes, since its aesthetics and idealism over material reality and conditions, sort of like religious cults.
Yes. In Italian Futurism’s own manifesto it spoke of burning down libraries, abolishing compassion and tenderness in all its forms, and destroying anything feminine in society in favor of phallic masculine imagery of rockets and cars everywhere. It was like a practice run for the kind of shit
preached generations later.
If what you’re telling me is right, this techbro wet dream of a manifesto feels as ridiculous as Ted Unabomber telling us about the inferiority complex of the Left…