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According to the author it is toxic masculinity that was the root cause of fascism. Just if someone likes to be spared the read.
by laserdancepony 6mo ago
According to the author it is toxic masculinity that was the root cause of fascism. Just if someone likes to be spared the read.
- t0mpr1c3 6mo agoDrink your milk.
- Isamu 6mo agoFoul! No such thing was claimed. >But war, war is something fascists value intensely because the beating heart of fascist ideology is a desire to prove heroic masculinity in the crucible of violent conflict (arising out of deep insecurity, generally). Or as Eco puts it, “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life, but, rather, life is lived for struggle…life is permanent warfare” and as a result, “everyone is educated to become a hero.”2 Being good at war is fundamentally central to fascism in nearly all of its forms – indeed, I’d argue nothing is so central. Consequently, there is real value in showing that fascism is, in fact, bad at war, which it is.