Intellectuals and Fascism

[Mark Kohut]

I want to add here that many modernist writers, who might not have sympathized 
with Fascism,
were 'conservative' enough to be called reactionaries. 

There was a whole book about 'em, called The Reactionaries, I believe, which 
included .... Eliot, Lawrence,
Conrad, Yeats.....................

If the modern world was........diseased......then conserving some values of the 
past was more on the right
than on the left, lower-case meanings here.................

And, we have adumbrated some 'conservative' values in our seemingly left-leaning 
author in the past...



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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, March 20, 2011 8:52:52 AM
Subject: Intellectuals and Fascism

 
Instead of correcting each and every opinion uttered here concerning     
intellectuals and Fascism,
let me just make one general statement:

During the 1920s and 1930 lots of the most brilliant intellectuals     fell in 
love with Fascism. 

This includes Ezra Pound, Gottfried Benn, and Carl Gustav Jung (cf.     Wotan, 
1936).

The roots of this affinity - Pynchon hinted at this in Against the     Day - can 
be traced back to the avantgarde in the arts, especially     Futurism. 


Of course, post crimen (that is: after the Holocaust)     everybody is an expert 
who always knew ...

KFL


      
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