Fascism is unironically a more advancement formation compared to liberalism, which makes sense since it was developed later.
Like, it actually resolves the ideological contradictions of liberalism by saying "stop taking your own contradictory bullshit at face value".
Nietzsche was an innovator in this direction.
It's "conscious liberalism" in that it extends bourgeois class consciousness to the mass base of imperialism.
It's irrational and incoherent BECAUSE liberalism is irrational and incoherent, and fascists simply embrace that fact, they embrace irrationality, absurdity, mysticism and hypocrisy consciously
fascists are consciously feels over reals, vibes > all, and liberals have no answer to that because they are stuck in this mode where they faithfully believe in some kind of universality, objectivity, and le science, an objectivity that determines everyone's reality, but then refuse to examine how their notions of objective reality and scientific truth are socially constructed themselves
fascists understand that you can basically "artificially" politicize any issue, even things that are seen as "beyond politics", by tuning into middle class (labor aristocrats, petty bourgs) conscious anxieties and agitpropping them hard enough. liberals have no answer except for bleating "but… the science is settled…. the institutions agree…."
this is how rightoids can manufacture hysteria around some obscure blurb in pokemon lore about how some pokemon species don't have gender by calling it "woke propaganda", and liberals have no answer except saying "but… pokemons are animals and some animals don't have gender either…. it's SCIENCE!"
but science has never been the point, the point is manipulating "what" is seen as scientifically true, and liberals are powerless here because they think the ideology of science is "objective" and that everybody defers to it or should defer to it, while fascists are directly attacking the ideology itself (for their own means). they're actually pointing out liberal hypocrisy to evil ends, by pointing out inconsistencies in how liberal scientific understanding stops short of examining social relations. fascists merely take those social relations and "resolve" the hypocrisy by claiming it also extends to nature, that our current contradictions are just nature itself. social darwinism etc
Liberals love calling out the "hypocrisy" of fascism, but I think
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