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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 11:09 AM Feb 2017

Mucking around in Republican philosophical cesspool: Bannon's dead BFF

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"...the deeply taboo, Nazi-affiliated thinker, Julius Evola.

"...But he is best known as a leading proponent of Traditionalism, a worldview popular in far-right and alternative religious circles that believes progress and equality are poisonous illusions.

"Evola became a darling of Italian Fascists, and Italy’s post-Fascist terrorists of the 1960s and 1970s looked to him as a spiritual and intellectual godfather..."

Yesterday's NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/europe/bannon-vatican-julius-evola-fascism.html
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