a cursory search on Payne's def'n turns up "a program for national rebirth based on a primarily vitalist philosophy, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, the pro

a cursory search on Payne's def'n turns up "a program for national rebirth based on a primarily vitalist philosophy, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, the promotion of violence, and military virtues." The last 4 are certainly in keeping with undoing human emancipation from unchosen bonds, but I'm not sure what "vitalist philosophy" might mean. another cursory search yields "Vitalism, as a philosophical position, is usually tied to the assumption that there is a fundamental difference between the organic and the inorganic, between the physical forces and the “life force”"; anyone know if (a) Payne is referring to that, and (b) if so, what the Foundationalist position may be?