{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "kontextmaschine:\u00a0Gaddafi was the most d'Annunzian figure since d'Annunzio\n ppl giving themselves effortpost prompts in my...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/150718114628/", "html": "

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polyaletheia:

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vzx:

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kontextmaschine:\u00a0Gaddafi was the most d'Annunzian figure since d'Annunzio

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ppl giving themselves effortpost prompts in my mentions smh

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Do it! I want to hear more about d\u2019Annunzio. I first heard about him in PLW\u2019s TAZ (or something) back in the day.

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bloodandhedonism:\u00a0d'Annunzio seems more like kontext\u2019s specialty, tell him to do more effortposts on him

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well, @kontextmaschine, the verdict is in

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I\u2019ll get to it.

Here\u2019s an appetizer - the thing that really got me into him, after a few sideways wikipedia references like what - I went to the library and got Michael Ledeen\u2019s 1977 English-language biography of him, The First Duce.

Michael Ledeen! The… oh shit, I\u2019m old aren\u2019t I*, he was big as a neocon in the runup to the Second Iraq War and was all \u201cBa\u2019athism is Fascism!\u201d (not wrong!) but how does he know Fascism \u2018cuz he was this guy who in the \u201870s was rediscovering the potential of ~tru~ fascism in Rome

back when that might have made a comeback!, people forget fascism had a mini-boom in the \u201870s-80s, not just punks and skinheads and Aryan Nations and Strategy of Tension and The Turner Diaries but Judge Dredd and Mount Perelin and Chile and all the British comics you look back like \u201cwoah, buddy, why is your communist ass getting all burnt on Reagan and Thatcher, they\u2019re the heroes doncha know\u201d

and looking back on that and getting more information and reading The Perch and some other biographies that were allusively but unhelpfully about period literary trends you really realize Ledeen was trying to rehabilitate the guy, in the mid-70s he was on a project to build up this story about a whimsical celebrity counter-imperial anti-Hitler\u00a0sex-positive military prophet protofascist pirate

and he wasn\u2019t wrong!




* what did you think this was going to be? tell me in my asks!

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