I’m actually wondering, Did the futurist movement have any inherent tendencies that led it to fascism?
Yes. In Italian Futurism’s own manifesto it spoke of burning down libraries, abolishing compassion and tenderness in all its forms, and destroying anything feminine in society in favor of phallic masculine imagery of rockets and cars everywhere. It was like a practice run for the kind of shit preached generations later.
If what you’re telling me is right, this techbro wet dream of a manifesto feels as ridiculous as Ted Unabomber telling us about the inferiority complex of the Left…
Yes. In Italian Futurism’s own manifesto it spoke of burning down libraries, abolishing compassion and tenderness in all its forms, and destroying anything feminine in society in favor of phallic masculine imagery of rockets and cars everywhere. It was like a practice run for the kind of shit
preached generations later.
If what you’re telling me is right, this techbro wet dream of a manifesto feels as ridiculous as Ted Unabomber telling us about the inferiority complex of the Left…