Author: Dominique Johnson
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Alighieri’s vision: Giovinezza – 1922 (First Version)
“Salve o popolo d’eroi (Hail, people of heroes), Salve o patria immortale (Hail, immortal Fatherland), Son rinati i figli tuoi (Your sons were born again), Con la fede e l’ideale (With the faith and the Ideal) Il valor dei tuoi guerrieri (Your warriors’ valour), La virtù dei pioniero (Your pioneers virtue), La vision dell’Alighieri (Alighieri’s…
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The Romaness of Fascism: Palmieri on the Prophets, Philosophy and Mission of Fascism
Italian Fascist Philosophy, from a primary source. FASCISM, or Fascist Philosophy as taught by its early thinkers was intentionally molded out of or considered to be a collective expression of the philosophy, wisdom, ambitions and history in Italy and of its people. Its main philosophic originator was Giovanni Gentile, who explained that Fascism was an…
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Death in June: Unconditional Armistice
Hilariously Perfect… “Can I trust a human? Can I trust his soul? Like pigs they link together Like pigs in a sausage roll They all think they’re individuals They all think they’re free Nietzsche said they are supermenDisplayed in a butcher’s shop to meMakes sense within a frameworkOf that Nazarene reality I wish I had…
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John Adams Letter to John Taylor: “Remember, democracy never lasts long”
“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.” JOHN ADAMS (FIRST VPOTUS AND SECOND POTUS) LETTER TO JOHN TAYLOR, 17 DECEMBER 1814. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Benjamin Franklin was asked supposedly, as he left…
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Why the Statue of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus carries a Fasces?
the Founding of a City and its Character Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, the legendary Roman who defeated the Aequians and rescued the trapped Roan Army. With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power and fraternity to the Dictator of Rome. In the other, a plow, which represents his life as citizen and farmer. Cincinnati…
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Giovanni Gentile on the True ‘Will of the People’ and Difference between Fascism and Nationalism
“The nationalistic State was, therefore, an aristocratic State, enforcing itself upon the masses through the power conferred upon it by its origins. The Fascist State, on the contrary, is a people’s state, and, as such, the democratic State par excellence.” — GIOVANNI GENTILE Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy…
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The Thermopylae of Fascism: Benito Mussolini’s Last Testament on His Life, Fascism, and Italy
The Thermopylae of Fascism “For this common ground,” Mussolini said in his last days of the Italian Social Republic (Salò Republic), “I would give my life even now, willingly, so long as it is truly marked with real Italian spirit.” (Testamento politico di Mussolini, 1948 Italian first edition, p. 5; dictated April 27, 1945). In…
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Etruscan Visual Representations of the Birth of Athena and Minerva: A Comparative Study | Dr. Shanna Kennedy-Quigley
Dr. Shanna Kennedy-Quigley’s paper from the Etruscan Studies Journal on the Etruscan visual representations of the Birth of Athena and Minerva provides historical, artistic, and cultural perspective of its common use in imagery. The paper explains the significant differences in the Etruscan cultural attitudes toward women, from those of their Greek contemporaries. It examines Etruscan…
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Believe…
“No man is born into the World a Master, and for that reason are we obliged to learn. He who applieth himself thereunto, and studieth, learneth; and a man can have no more shameful and evil title than that of being an Ignorant person.”—The Book of Abramelin I warn to be very wary of ANTI-GNOSTICISM rather…
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Everyone now sees fascists
An excerpt from Brendan O’Neill’s essay, Bolsonaro is not a fascist, on the danger of branding everyone a fascist; something rather than genuinely foreboding, becoming a sign of intellectual laziness. INTRODUCTION Mussolini’s made a prediction of the future in the Last Days of his “Italian Social Republic” in 1945, when he gave instructions to Italian…
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Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right
In the mid-point to the last quarter of 2018, many articles were written across platforms and the internet on how the Alt-Right and Conservatives were misappropriating “the Greek and Latin Classics” to lend credibility to vicious and vindictive white supremacist and Identitarian ideology. I have compiled several to introduce to us a problem. Classics and…
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Columbia (American Minerva) and the Fasces in Harper’s Weekly “Reconstruction” for Equal Rights (1868)
EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCACY “Reconstruction” by German-born American political cartoonist, Thomas Nast illustrates the Southern states being brought back into order with the North under the ancient symbol of collective power, authority and fraternity, the fasces and the nation’s motto, E Pluribus Unum (“Out of Many, One”). The symbolism of Columbia (America) depicted in Thomas Nast’s…
The American Minervan 