Limits of American Political Imagination: Bronze Age Pervert on Republics

The classical republics and democracies would be called “Nazi” by Americans in our day, especially with the loose manner people employ the terms against their political opponents of being Nazi and Fascist — a demonstrably failed tactic. This tactic has proven to be a failure for anti-right forces, statistically and observably.

I am not sure Americans really understand their Republic, nor have it in them to create a truly great civilization or philosophic elite in limiting our own understanding of the past. It is a flaw to measure civilization by merely military and technological developments as in this age of the craze of generative artificial intelligence and the emergent tech-right.

The Americans are having trouble with their ideas on authority, masculinity and identity. How we understand different types of political systems today inform how we understand and judge ancient republics and democracies.

When I am trying to explain the ideological and historical contexts Fascism come from, because of those limitations it is hard for some people to reconcile themselves. As an example, I explained, that Fascist notions of political authority emerge within a context of philosophical and political arguments in that time in relation to Absolutism. Mussolini did not rule alone. He ruled like a dog under the diarchy of King Victor Emmanuel III and himself. There is a long history of various political systems in Italy, with republics and monarchies that the Fascists pulled from.

This context is different from our political history and development of ideal political authority, because it is republican; and beginning with the rejection of making George Washington a King. However, just because the chief of the Republic is no King, the chief is still capable of practicing and exhibiting the characteristics, qualities and flaws of the ideal philosopher-king. American mythology paints George Washington (who was compared to early Roman Republic military leader and Roman patrician Cincinnatus) just as much.

Some associate republics and democracies with only the qualities they wish to see or understand. We are questioning these limitations by fully reconstructing Republicanism to lay it out bare, while understanding that the Republicanism of the American Revolution (Republicanism in the Radicalism of the American Revolution) is itself a neo-classical reconstruction.