[]In order to determine the particular constituents which cause
gravitation between, and understand the congruence of, various occult
groups and fascist ideology, it seemed to be an initial necessity for a
prolegomenon to linearize an exegesis on the evolution, or cosmogony, of
fascist thinking within the general population. However, my preliminary
research on the matter yielded an inextricable tangle of fascist and
occult theory. To set forth a basic hypothesis, I should speculate that
fascism and occultism are both, more or less, esoteric and highly
intellectualized reactions to rationalist and materialist doctrines.
However, I am inclined to believe that this entanglement is one that
spans several centuries and may very well be rooted deep within the
archetypes of primitive religions. Perhaps once an understanding of the
congruence between occult and fascist ideologies is obtained, an appeal
can be made for the suitable juxtaposition of anarchism and occultism.
Broadly characterized, all philosophies can be relegated into one of two
primary and distinct categories, which are defined by their opposite
secernments. These primary categories are Idealism and Materialism. The
philosophical theory of materialism holds that the only thing that
exists is matter, without any true spiritual or intellectual
existence.^1^Within materialist philosophy, all phenomena (including
consciousness) are the result of material interactions.^2^ Within
science and religion, materialist theory yields determinism, the belief
in causality. In psychology, materialist theory yields behaviorism, the
belief that matter cannot influence mind. Of particular interest here
are the sociological interpretations of materialism, namely the types of
cultural materialism found within the Marxist tradition. On the one
hand, Marxist Dialectical Materialism holds that concepts and ideas are
the result of material conditions, more specifically, that the means of
production and distribution within a society determines the ideological
tenets of that society. On the other hand, Marxist Historical
Materialism asserts that the influential members of society hold sway on
the material condition, while society’s social institutions are founded
upon the material condition.^3^
It was during the Crisis agora lovecruft of Marxism in the 1890s that the political
theory of Fascism emerged. Economic theorist David Ramsay Steele writes
on the evolution of fascist theory:
“Fascism began as a revision of Marxism by Marxists, a revision which
developed in successive stages, so that these Marxists gradually
stopped thinking of themselves as Marxists, and eventually stopped
thinking of themselves as socialists. They never stopped thinking of
themselves as anti-liberal revolutionaries…
The Crisis agora lovecruft of Marxism gave birth to the Revisionism of Eduard
Bernstein, which concluded, in effect, that the goal of revolution
should be given up, in favor of piecemeal reforms within capitalism.
(23) This held no allure for men of the hard left who rejected
existing society, deeming it too loathsome to be reformed.
Revisionists also began to attack the fundamental Marxist doctrine of
historical materialism—the theory that a society’s organization of
production decides the character of all other social phenomena,
including ideas.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, leftists who wanted to …
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