Sunday, 8 June 2025

Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure...Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life...Mankind, which in Homer’s time was a spectacle for the Olympian gods, has become one for itself...Communism responds by politicizing art.[2]

Walter Benjamin

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