"Politics likings" - Marco M.

Politics likings

I was asked about my D'Annunzio sympathies because it's considered fascist. Hence, I am writing this post to clarify once again my own personal view, be it clear not that of the school, on society and politics. Not because I find it necessary, but simply because I have nothing to hide.

I don't vote because I don't believe in democracy. My enemies are not those who think differently, but only those who personally do me wrong. I find the current trend, typical of keyboard warriors, ridiculous and unhealthy, for those who are unable to relate humanly and thus have true friends with different ideas from their own.

I see politics as a continuity with society. In other words, a corrupt and uneducated society, like the current one, manifests a politics that is equally corrupt and ignorant. Therefore, it makes no sense for me to engage in political bickering, but it is essential, and I feel it as a personal mission, to try to nurture the Beautiful, the True, and the Authentic in practice even before in words. Obviously with all my human limitations.

If I had to say, in an absolutely hypothetical sense, what my preferred form of government would be, I would advocate for a return to the city-state (like Sparta and Athens) led by a 'monk-warrior-philosopher', which is a kind of small holistic revisitation of the Platonic myth expressed in The Republic. Is all this achievable today? Obviously not.

Do I have fascist likings? If fascism is meant to refer to a society based on a sort of national socialism, the answer is no. I am neither 'national' nor a 'socialist'. If instead, as often happens today, fascism is meant as being critical towards progressivism, towards enlightenment, scientism, 'wokeism', globalism, and towards the attitude of judging great human expressions with the swollen eyes of current culture, then yes, I am.

m.m.