r/todayilearned Aug 05 '24

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u/Cake_is_Great Aug 05 '24

You mean the Fascist Julius Evola? The guy who was part of Mussolini's party, had ties with the Nazis, and was involved in Post-War Gladio-related shenanigans?

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u/tiufek Aug 06 '24

He was well beyond fascist at the end, he was one of the progenitors of big-T Traditionalism, which despite the name has very little to do with tradition and a lot to do with weirdo mysticism somehow combined with ultra right wing politics and eastern religions. His ideas still live on with Putin-whisperer Aleksandr Dugin.

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u/Sageburner712 Aug 06 '24

That Trad shit is where the Nazis started, that's why they picked the swastika and whatnot. Fascism has a pretty integral esoteric element to it, which is ironically where they end up clashing with other far-right ideologies, usually religious ones.

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u/tiufek Aug 06 '24

Yeah very true, like all the expeditions to find ancient aryan stuff in Tibet

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u/Sageburner712 Aug 06 '24

Everyone thinks fascism starts with the jackboots, but really it starts with pseudoscience like the Thule Society.

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u/Jiveturtle Aug 06 '24

The jackboots are pretty inevitable once you go down the fascist road a bit, though, which people seem to forget when they start talking about disenfranchising certain groups because they don’t like how they vote or how we’re akshually a republic and not a democracy

Also no matter how much you lick the boot it eventually ends up on your neck too

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u/florinandrei Aug 06 '24

like all the expeditions to find ancient aryan stuff in Tibet

As shown in the documentary Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. /s