Irrational fascist euphoria serves capital yet carries dialectically usable content

Evidence

Seen in itself, immediately, the shimmering or euphoric illusion of fascism only serves big business, which uses it to scatter or plunge into night those classes which are sinking into poverty. Mediately, however, steam rising out of abysses which are useful not only to capitalism can be seen in irrational euphoria. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 209

Categorization

• XREF: Bloch’s immediate/mediate analysis of fascism parallels the Frankfurt School’s own fascism diagnosis elsewhere in the book. — connects to: Bloch proposed superseding fascist euphoria rather than condemning or exploiting it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 768; Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421; Fascist character reflects weak ego, externalized superego, and ego-alienated id — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 438 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bloch proposed superseding fascist euphoria rather than condemning or exploiting it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 768; Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421; Fascist character reflects weak ego, externalized superego, and ego-alienated id — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 438 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascist egalitarianism is repressive, not liberating #complicates (0.73) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 199