/lit/ - Literature

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>Fascism
Fascism is not all bad, but Evola's racism is just embarassing. Some of his works, like his foreword to the Protocols and the second part of Revolt against the Modern World show he not only believes in a theory of race, but has a paranoid obsession with race. The Italian fascists never really took him seriously, and the idea that he is a fascist is based on a crude definition of fascism that ignores the Italian regime's ideological inflences. (if you want to learn more about this i recommend the book Mussolini's Intellectuals by A. James Gregor, especially the chapter about Evola). Evola's tendency to slip into angsty tirades about how much everything sucks is really unfortunate. His works contain an amazing and insightful synthesis of occult traditions, but he's more well known for his politics, which is the least interesting part of his work.

>yeats
eats was sympathetic to certain aspects of Italian fascism like its nostalgia, its romanticism, its hero-worship, its respect for and cultivation of the arts,and its call for cultural renewal and rejuvination, but it's misleading to present him as anywhere near a committed Fascist like Pound. The focus of his life and work is largely non-political, and there is no anti-semitism or racial speculation in his works. He may have believed in some kind of racial theory, but you couldn't tell by reading his books. He did give one speech in parliament expressing admiration for Mussolini, but Yeats was generally an ineffectual and minor politician,and his speech was before Fascist Italy became a dictatorship anyway. Yeats' works (including his essays) are always misty and suggestive, and they don't really give assent to any particular philosophical position, more provie you with symbols to construct a mystic quest in your own imagination. I realise Yeats work has a lot of resonances though and id be curious to hear another perspective on it.

The pound quote is stupid because the Italian Fascists didn't even discriminate against the Jews.(Mussolini even had a Jewish mistress). Also Yeats never really mentored pound, as you'd probably know if you were actually interested in these authors, instead of just in their wikipedia pages and the quotes that come up when you search their names on google images.

>Dion Fortune
literally who

>Most Theosophy and Golden Dawn members believed in distinct root races that should be kept distinct.
Most fo them likely believed in distinct human types, but they were mostly also not really political people. i dont think any of the big golden dawn members really cared about ethnic purity at all. Yeats and Waite both worked closely on artistic projects with black women.