The American Minervan

Tag: Fascist Studies

  • Everyone now sees fascists

    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…

  • Himmler’s Witches Library and Eric Kurlander talk Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

    Himmler’s Witches Library and Eric Kurlander talk Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

    Last year’s Hallows’ Eve special program, “Hitler’s Monsters” explored occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by Nazi Germany in the service of power. “The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, and in reality the supernatural was an essential part of the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan…

  • Behind the Visual Propaganda of the ‘New Italian Woman’ in Fascism | Victoria de Grazia’s ‘How Fascism Ruled Women’

    Behind the Visual Propaganda of the ‘New Italian Woman’ in Fascism | Victoria de Grazia’s ‘How Fascism Ruled Women’

    INTRODUCTION Victoria de Grazia explains in her book, “How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945,” that the New Italian Woman (Nuova Italiana) in the Fascist Ideal was not as one might imagine as displayed in Italian and German pictures, or in the propaganda of marching, busty and fit, militant and disciplined Athena-esque women. There was really…