The situation with Italian futurism is not so simple. Most of the futurist ideas on the positivity of the war are from before WWI. After the war, when fascism

The situation with Italian futurism is not so simple. Most of the futurist ideas on the positivity of the war are from before WWI. After the war, when fascism started to rise, the "second futurism" came to life, a new generation of futurists (although some "old" artists were still futurists, like Depero), much less involved in politics: https://h2g2.com/entry/A723764 https://h2g2.com/entry/A723764 They were still promoting technology and speed and the future, but the experience of WWI did change the overall attitude.