[]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 …

read more