Fascism exposes rather than discredits reason, which fundamentally serves self-preservation

Evidence

My train of thought is very simple. 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, 319

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that fascism is reason’s most brutal fulfillment, not its refutation, inverts the standard Enlightenment-betrayed-by-barbarism story — a paradigm worth sitting with.
• XREF: This is the seed of Dialectic of Enlightenment’s instrumental-reason thesis, developed two years later with Adorno. — connects to: Fascism exposed reason as always having been an instrument of self-preservation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1235; 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
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 319

Broader Connections

• Fascism exposed reason as always having been an instrument of self-preservation. #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1235
• Fascism stripped reason of its metaphysical trappings, exposing it as an organ of self-preservation. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1235
• Fascism exposes bourgeois universal reason as an instrument of particular privilege #qualifies (0.85)