Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Wrongissmo, Il Duce.

"First of all, as regards the future development of mankind, and quite apart from all present political considerations. Fascism does not, generally speaking, believe in the possibility or utility of perpetual peace. It therefore discards pacifism as a cloak for cowardly supine renuncia­tion in contradistinction to self-sacrifice. War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum tension and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it." —Mussolini

First of all, pacifism is not cowardly. The point is not, I would imagine, to lack defense, but to shun violence. And pacifism is meaningless without the capacity to act violently--which is why pacifists should be trained in lethal arts, without exception and by force if necessary. Violence is ignoble. Tension is undesirable. My impression from the movies is that an aggressive war is, without much exception, contrary to the welfare of the State.

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