The West and intellectual dialectics about fascism

Abstract

Speaking of fascism, we often find rather superficial readings that attribute this definition to any conservative movement or authoritarian phenomenon. To study the whole complex and articulated set of contradictions that have directly or indirectly characterized the history of Western civilization is essential to understand one of the most dramatic age in the history of contemporary humanity. Fascism is the product of the objective and subjective contradictions of liberal societies in crisis, but also a political and cultural development not unrelated to the brutal European civilization that subjected and enslaved the so-called “primitive peoples”. Not recognizing these organic links by refusing to historicize and philosophically frame premises and rational causes of this phenomenon inevitably leads to the use of the anti-historical categories of teratology, which claim to represent reality as the inexplicable result of madness, monstrosity and deformity.