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January 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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truly, the one opponent vegeta would be better suited for
November 9, 2024 at 6:28 PM
truly, the one opponent vegeta would be better suited for
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We rib on Lovecraft a lot here, but we should make it clear for all his faults he did recognize fascist populism for what it was
Just to clarify, Lovecraft's politics don't map well to contemporary politics but he detested demagogues and those who enriched themselves at the expense of others.
![The only way the handful of defeated greed-worshippers could ever regain power would be through a shrewdly organised fascist movement based on primitive emotional appeals of the religio-hysteric type (waving the flag, rousing nominal Christians against "Jewish intellectualism", exciting native-Americans against "Catholic-Irish-Jewish or whatever foreign element predominates in any particular section] democracy", exciting Catholics against "materialistic communism", exciting provincial pride against "decadent European innovations" &c. &.c.) or through an armed revolt with foreign backing like that of Gen. Franco in Spain. Granting the scant probability of a Franco-like revolt of the Hoovers & Mellons & polite bankers, & conceding that--despite Coughlinism, the Black Legion, the Silver Shirts, & the K.K.K.--the soil of America is hardly very fertile for any variant of Nazism, it seems likely that the day of free & easy plutocracy in the United States is over.
- H. P. Lovecraft to Catherine L. Moore, 7 Feb 1937](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:utdci2ewhpqzfl6uukt4kdkc/bafkreiekl2a5wtlaybcm53jakmfwe3jpvyc24quxzzq6acccfjtnotpww4@jpeg)
November 9, 2024 at 5:36 PM
We rib on Lovecraft a lot here, but we should make it clear for all his faults he did recognize fascist populism for what it was