By perfecting its own principle, Fascism liquidated strategy itself

Evidence

The Fascists raised to an absolute the basic idea of strategy: to exploit the temporary discrepancy between one nation with a leadership organized for murder, and the total potential of the rest. Yet by taking this idea to its logical conclusion in inventing total war, and by erasing the distinction between army and industry, they themselves liquidated strategy. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 121

Categorization

• XREF: The self-liquidating dialectic parallels Adorno’s argument that Enlightenment turns into myth — totalization destroys the very category it perfects. — connects to: Contemporary fascism operates by disavowing its own identity while pursuing its aims. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 492