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[Propagandhim]

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It totally did start as aesthetics, with Marinetti and the futurists

This is also why Ezra pound was involved

 
Nah, futurism was fundamentally an artistic and cultural movement and it had no real political ideology. Its primary aim was to revolutionize art and culture, not to create a new system of government and to tie it to fascism is an oversimplification.  Marinetti's futurism was co-opted, superficially, into Mussolini's fascism after the fact, not before it - there's no semblance of the tenets of fascism in the Futurist Manifesto, which was published a decade before Mussolini's movement.  And it's easy to make this mistake, because everyone keeps referring to "fascism" as this vague thing, when in reality it's a very specific, well-delineated ideology.   If you read the Futurist Manifesto and see a connection to the tenets of 'fascism' in that, then everything could be claimed be the core originator of fascsism - fascism drew from nationalist movements, syndicalism, and reactionary philosophies far more than futurism. It's just an extreme stretch. Pound became drawn to fascist ideology in the 1920s and 1930s because of the economic theories (he particularly hated usury), not from futurism.  It absolutely did not start as an aesthetic, it started with Mussolini's politics and emerged from very specific reasons (WWI aftermath, fear of communism, resentment over territorial losses, Perceived ineffectiveness of democratic governments in addressing economic and social problems, etc).

Marinetti wrote the fascist manifesto and I’ve read it and it’s 1000% about aesthetics. Being real so is mein kampf, which is essentially a long form shit post about why hitler has good taste in stuff and everyone else is objectively wrong

What part of the Manifesto (or in the Doctrine of Fascism, speeches, his news articles, or elsewhere) implies an origin in aesthetics?  Maybe I read it wrong.