Zionist Revisionism championed Dionysian force against Apollonian narratives of progress

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revisionist Zionism explicitly rejected Apollonian progress for Dionysian force — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 533; Zionist Revisionists inverted Enlightenment progress into a narrative of spiritual decay — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 539; Zionist Revisionists framed East-West difference as an evolutionary matter-form split — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 538 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Revisionist Zionism explicitly rejected Apollonian progress for Dionysian force #corroborates (0.97) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 533