Intellectuals can be an even worse disaster when they themselves are the rulers.
Consider Robespierre
True for both Fascism and Marxism-Leninism.
>There was a time after WW I when you could be a modernist intellectual, a Fascist, and a Communist all at the same time.
>Fascist, and a Communist all at the same time.
>Fascist and Communist
>at the same time
I think you are 100% correct in that assertion, AP.
Well its certainly different when it comes to who controls society, that's for damned sure.
Anarchy in the sense that Communists actually believe that society can be constructed based on ownership of the means of production by the workers.
Like you, I suspect,, I think they are utopians.
Yup
My GODan actual self proclaiming FASCIST who truly understands the theory of fascism!!!
I love you, man.
I mean I don't love your social philosophy, but I love that you at least know what it is, and can articulate it clearly.
Hey don't worry about it. Liberal Democracy exists only as a guise for what this nation really is. AS I suspect you also already know, what we really have is a KLEPTOCRACY
You know what the problem is.
People think HITLERIAN GERMANY was authentic fascism, and STALINESQUE USSR was authentic communism.
You can understand why that confuses people, given how similarly both tyrannies treated their own people.
And it wasn't just Stalin either: Lenin Paints Himself Black With His Own Words
I think you'll find that was mostly just empty rhetoric.
When Intellectuals Attack
Here are some quotes from F. T. Marinetti's The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.
quote: We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
quote: We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
Marinetti's fellow atheist Nietzsche inspired Hitler. Here's Hitler admiring history's most famous atheist:
quote: Hitler often visited the Nietzsche museum in Weimar and publicized his veneration for the philosopher by posing for photographs of himself staring in rapture at the bust of the great man.
quote: Finally there was Nietzsche's prophecy of the coming elite who would rule the world and from whom the superman would spring. In The Will to Power he exclaims: "A daring and ruler race is building itself up.... The aim should be to prepare a transvaluation of values for a particularly strong kind of man, most highly gifted in intellect and will. This man and the elite around him will become the 'lords of the earth'." Such rantings from one of Germany's most original minds must have struck a responsive chord in Hitler's littered mind. At any rate he appropriated them for his own--not only the thoughts but the philosopher's penchant for grotesque exaggeration, and often his very words. "Lords of the Earth" is a familiar expression in Mein Kampf.
LINK
Too many intellectuals are united in their hatred of Christianity, their desire for absolute power, and their determination to exterminate the ”unfit”, the “inferior”.
Look at the facts: You Mean Hitler Wasn’t A Priest? - WorldWide Religious NewsWhen Intellectuals Attack
Here are some quotes from F. T. Marinetti's The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.
quote: We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
quote: We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
Marinetti's fellow atheist Nietzsche inspired Hitler. Here's Hitler admiring history's most famous atheist:
quote: Hitler often visited the Nietzsche museum in Weimar and publicized his veneration for the philosopher by posing for photographs of himself staring in rapture at the bust of the great man.
quote: Finally there was Nietzsche's prophecy of the coming elite who would rule the world and from whom the superman would spring. In The Will to Power he exclaims: "A daring and ruler race is building itself up.... The aim should be to prepare a transvaluation of values for a particularly strong kind of man, most highly gifted in intellect and will. This man and the elite around him will become the 'lords of the earth'." Such rantings from one of Germany's most original minds must have struck a responsive chord in Hitler's littered mind. At any rate he appropriated them for his own--not only the thoughts but the philosopher's penchant for grotesque exaggeration, and often his very words. "Lords of the Earth" is a familiar expression in Mein Kampf.
LINK
Too many intellectuals are united in their hatred of Christianity, their desire for absolute power, and their determination to exterminate the ”unfit”, the “inferior”.
That's not an intelligent reply. I am of course not criticizing all intelligent people, just smart people who serve fascism or Communism or various other forms of depravity. Surely you condemn people like Heidegger and Trotsky, don't you?
Look at the facts: You Mean Hitler Wasn’t A Priest? - WorldWide Religious NewsWhen Intellectuals Attack
Here are some quotes from F. T. Marinetti's The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.
quote: We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
quote: We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
Marinetti's fellow atheist Nietzsche inspired Hitler. Here's Hitler admiring history's most famous atheist:
quote: Hitler often visited the Nietzsche museum in Weimar and publicized his veneration for the philosopher by posing for photographs of himself staring in rapture at the bust of the great man.
quote: Finally there was Nietzsche's prophecy of the coming elite who would rule the world and from whom the superman would spring. In The Will to Power he exclaims: "A daring and ruler race is building itself up.... The aim should be to prepare a transvaluation of values for a particularly strong kind of man, most highly gifted in intellect and will. This man and the elite around him will become the 'lords of the earth'." Such rantings from one of Germany's most original minds must have struck a responsive chord in Hitler's littered mind. At any rate he appropriated them for his own--not only the thoughts but the philosopher's penchant for grotesque exaggeration, and often his very words. "Lords of the Earth" is a familiar expression in Mein Kampf.
LINK
Too many intellectuals are united in their hatred of Christianity, their desire for absolute power, and their determination to exterminate the ”unfit”, the “inferior”.
lol Don't you think intellectuals are more influential?
If you think somebody I mentioned shouldn't be on the list, please be specific.
