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The first one though : The cult of tradition for example. If they really whorshipped traditions, facist movements wouldnt regularly destroy their whole enviro
by qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
The first one though :
The cult of tradition for example. If they really whorshipped traditions, facist movements wouldnt regularly destroy their whole environment and society, uprooting all that was before.
Take ISIS and Nazi Germany, they pretended to be pro Traditions, but at the same time destroyed all that had come before completely and utterly.
I found the "states regressing to tribal society und pressure while wielding a industrial economy" to be the better description of the problem.
Though in that criteria, ISIS was not that facist, as they never had the debt loaded industrial economy that defines a full scale non-local regression.
- bigger_inside 4y agoto have a working cult of traditions, you have to invent them first. And to invent them, you have to destroy the traditions that were invented before, but are old enough to have evolved, sprawled, and gone out of control. The newly invented ones are much easily controllable. Side reference, but of course historian Eric Hobsbawm is the central name here, who wrote "the invention of traditions" about how this happens.
- DoughnutHole 4y agoIt's also easy enough to mythologise and claim you're going back to the real traditions of your society that have been erased by degeneracy - you have have to upend and destroy the social order in order go "back" to the traditions of an imagined past. The Fascists of Italy were all about casting themselves as returning Italy to the glory of Ancient Rome, right down to the basic symbolism of the party.
- n4r9 4y agoIt just means that traditionalism is a core part of the narrative. It's about appearing as if you respect traditions, and frequently bringing them up as justfication for this or that.