every bridge to the past must be closed, "destroy the museums, the libraries, every type of academy" and sing of "the great crowds, shaken by work, by pleasure or by rioting"; "glorify war - the only hygiene of the world- militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of liberators, the beautiful ideas for which one dies, and contempt for women"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti
i guess they started out before ww1
some of them were anarchists
the fascination with new technology, machinery, and
speed
and pure motion
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and modernisation enthralled them
beyond donkeys and carts
techno pop
how this got perverted into military power and
dictatorial madness
should be of common concern to us all
it can happen here
when i was down and out in new york
i worked as a "porter" at the art students' league
with an older fellow, george, who loved to draw
he would attend the open life drawing group on friday evenings and drew
in dark red conte pencil, carefully rendered figures
he always said that fascism was national socialism
and hated socialism because of the association
ww2 vet, battle of the bulge,
a career janitor at the league
went home to his wine
a sad figure
but nice to me
somehow thhe socialism of marx got mutated into
political power by taking of a german ideal of "forceful action"
and mussolini rode this wave of new italian aesthetic sentiment into power
"futuurist political fasci"
the futurists marched with the fascists into rome
and his aesthetic friends argued that fascism was a naturan extension of futurism
and once mussolini had power,
became more interested in consolidating his populist base
and appealed to anti semitism and abandoned the futuurists essential struggle for change, seperated himself from the futuurists, appealed more to the bourgeoisie, and allied with mainstream german national socialism
always liked the imagery of
balla
a bit of the mystical
how he got seduced into fascism
not so mysterius
a happy line can seduce any sweet italian boy
power, ego, adventure, big machines
like vietnam vets
trucks, tanks, "rome" plows, choppers, planes
and guns, artilllery
wonder how he did in his later years
dawdling about in rome
synthesing physical motion with larger spheres of the human psyche
unknown
http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm