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Old November 3rd, 2016 #1
RickHolland
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Default Futurism and politics : between anarchist rebellion and fascist reaction



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"Futurism was the state of the Fascist regime" - this is the view one encounters in most books written on Futurist art and literature. Whilst there can be no doubt about Futurist involvement with the founding of the fascist movement, little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22, nor about the reasons for the Futurists' departure from the Fascist movement in 1920, or about Futurist opposition to (and even armed struggle against) the Fascist regime after 1924. Whilst the public documents testifying to Futurist support of Mussolini are well known, little has been written about Futurist anti-fascism camouflaged as official adherence to the regime. This study, based primarily on unknown or unpublished documents discovered in state archives and private collections, presents a new andfar more complex picture of the relationship of the two movements than has previously been shown by critics and historians.
Some quotes from Marinetti:

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“We wish to glorify war – the sole cleanser of the world – militarism, patriotism, the destructive act of the libertarian, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for women.”
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„Anarchy, turning its back on the infinite principle of human evolution, suspends its curving leap only at the absolute ideal of universal peace, at a ludicrous paradise composed of warm embraces, under rustling palm leaves, out in the country.“
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„But what sets an even wider gap between the Futurist and the anarchistic points of view is the great problem of love, the great tyranny of sentimentalism and lust, from which we wish to liberate
mankind.“
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„It is for this reason that I foresee the aggressive entry of women into parliament, with some pleasure. Where could we find a more effective, more excitable dynamite?
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We, who profoundly despise career politicians, are happy to leave parliamentarianism to the spiteful claws of women, because the noble task of finally killing it off is indeed left to them.“
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„It is very apparent that a government composed of women or one supported by women would drag us fatally down the road of pacifism and Tolstoyan cowardice, to the triumph of clericalism and moralizing cant...“
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„You will admit, for example, that the victory of feminism, and particularly the influence of women in politics, will end up destroying the family principle. [...] [L]et me tell you that if the family, which stifles all vital energies, is to disappear, then we’ll have to try and get along without it.“
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“The whole enormous business of romantic love is thus reduced to the single purpose of preservation of the species, and physical arousal is at last freed from all its titillating mystery, [...] it becomes merely bodily function, like eating and drinking.”
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“That atmosphere of endless sniveling and clinging to skirts and obsessive kissing which is the stuff of early childhood will be abolished entirely.”
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„We are convinced that love – sentimentalism and lust – is the least natural thing in the world. All that’s natural and important in it is the coitus, whose goal is the futurism of the species.“

(Marinetti, Against Sentimentalized Love and Parliamentarianism)
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“Male children - in our opinion - must develop separately from little girls, so that their early games are unequivocally masculine, which is to say, totally devoid of all cloying affections, of all womanish refinements. They must be lively, combative, muscular, and violently dynamic. Male and female children living in the same environment is always the cause of retarded development in the character of the male [...].”
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„Woman does not belong to man but rather to the future and to the development of the human race. We want a woman to love a man and to give herself to him only for as long as she wishes; and then, unfettered by any contract or moralizing tribunal, give birth to a creature that society must educate physically and intellectualy up to the high concept of Italian freedom“
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„We’ve even dreamt of one day being able to create our own mechanical son, fruit of pure will, synthesis of all the laws the discovery of which science is about to hurl down upon us.“
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[I]t has to be acknowledged that we aspire to the creation of a nonhuman species in which moral anguish, goodness, affection, and love, the singular corrosive poisons of vital energy, the only off-switches of our powerful, physiological electricity, will be abolished. [...] This nonhuman, mechanical species, built for constant speed, will quite naturally be cruel, omniscient, and warlike.“
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„In order to prepare for the formation of the nonhuman, mechanical species of extended man, through the externalization of his will, it is very important that the need for affection, which man feels in his veins and which cannot yet be destroyed, be greatly reduced.The man of the future will reduce his heart to its proper function of blood distribution.”
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“The opposite wings of politics and literature, beating with frantic intensity, will yet again sweep away the smoke-filled skies of human sacrifice. Trade unionists all, whether of manual labor or of the intellect, of life and of art, destroyers and creators together, realistic or idealistic anarchists, propelled by the same superhuman intoxication, toward the common apotheosis of the Future!”
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