Revisionist Zionism explicitly rejected Apollonian progress for Dionysian force

Evidence

The Revisionists also wanted to follow this general path, or as Jabotinsky claimed, “The Diaspora means that others create and control our history; Zionism means that the Israeli nation begins, as an independent nation, to make its own history.” As opposed to the dominant Zionist view, however, they wanted to explore an alternative to the historical narrative, in which virile and vital life forces were suppressed by history’s dominant powers. The Revisionists, who believed that militarism and the use of brute force were the only viable means to gain national independence, wanted to explore the Dionysian forces in human history that, in the end, are always overshadowed by the Apollonian narrative of progress and rationality. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 533

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Revisionist-Zionist ideological program in terms of the Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy — a Nietzschean framing worth pinning down.
• XREF: Echoes the Nietzschean Apollo/Dionysus dichotomy found in readings about civilizational narratives of rationality versus vital force.
• SEED: Article angle: the Apollonian/Dionysian framing as a recurring structure in nationalist movements — how ‘making our own history’ gets narrated as reclaiming suppressed vital forces rather than joining a progressive tide.