Aphorism #3: Fascism as Nietzschean Drive

Fascism: neither dumpster fire nor dirty secret

Fascism is a slur amongst Leftists — in symmetry with SJW among the radical right. There is no greater crime. Like a dumpster fire or a dirty secret, it is hoped a failure to engage will suffocate the problem. It’s naïve but its naivete is obscured by taboo.

Metamodernists and Integralists see it as a developmental regression. Like good Hegelians they believe society is progressing — happily heading up the dialectical spiral. Anomalies like Fascism or Populism are dismissed as regressions. Mighty is the oak whose dialectical development trumps the law of entropy and grows towards acornhood.

There is another way of understanding Fascism and Populism: Nietzschean drives.