Fascist ideology reframes duty as heroic suffering stripped of economic content

Evidence

The social contradictions which lead to a restriction of the forces of production function in the same way as a regressive psychological development, a strengthening of the patricentric complex, as seen in the movements growing out of the struggle against Marxism. In place of a demand for the happiness which all human beings deserve, the ideological representatives of these movements once again put a sense of duty at the centre of their system of values. However, because of the economic situation, this sense of duty no longer has any economic content but is merely a demand for heroic action and suffering for the community. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 570

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fromm’s ‘patricentric complex’ as the psychoanalytic mechanism linking economic contradiction to regressive psychological development.
• XREF: connects to: Fascism conserves obsolete bourgeois forms stripped of their economic basis — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 30; Fascism reimposed the economic-political divide that workers had breached — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 583; Fascist violence answered the industrialists’ desire for revenge on labor. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 576 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascism conserves obsolete bourgeois forms stripped of their economic basis #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 30
• Fascism reimposed the economic-political divide that workers had breached #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 583