Fascism exposed reason as always having been an instrument of self-preservation.
Evidence
Reason appears to have been discredited by fascism. That is not correct. Fascism has merely cleared away completely the metaphysical categories which were associated with rationalism. Reason was always an organ of self-preservation, which is what, in the most brutal sense, fascism is based on. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1235
Categorization
- XREF: Lines up with instrumental reason critique in Dialectic of Enlightenment and later in Habermas. — connects to: Fascism exposes rather than discredits reason, which fundamentally serves self-preservation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 319; Fascism stripped reason of its metaphysical trappings, exposing it as an organ of self-preservation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1235; Fascism exposes bourgeois universal reason as an instrument of particular privilege (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Fascism exposes bourgeois universal reason as an instrument of particular privilege
#expands(0.88) - Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism
#expands(0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 24 - Fascism appropriated the Hegelian idea of a national spirit to justify state power
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