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www.rpg-maker.fr is pretty good.

author=Darken
I mean it's not hard to find glancing around wikipedia.

That's... not really a very good response.

To begin with, Mussolini's Italy leaning heavily into the Roman Empire stuff wasn't ever in contention. The issue was what parts of (at the time) modern culture did they consider degenerate?

That's what I can't find a source for. As far as I can tell (again, I'm not actually a historian) there was never any Italian version of 'Degenerate Art', or the book burnings.

Secondly, the link you provided includes a list of Core Tenants of Fascism:

- Palingenetic ultranationalism
- Nationalism
- Imperialism
- Militarism
- Racism
- Dictatorship
- Anti-communism
- Anti-intellectualism
- Anti-pacifism
- Chauvinism
- Conspiracism
- Direct action
- Social interventionism
- Social order
- Indoctrination
- Irrationalism
- Machismo
- Perpetual war
- Propaganda
- Populism
- Syncretism
- Heroism
- Economic interventionism
- Statolatry
- New Man
- Reactionary modernism

Note that 'culture is degrading' isn't one of them.

Thirdly, Wikipedia isn't... really a great source. Especially when dealing with a subject like fascism. There's been more than a few documented cases of Wehraboos just straight up writing fanfiction:
https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/

author=Gourd_Clae
Actually, I guess fascism didn't originate in Italy! https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Intellectual-origins

In hindsight, it's probably more accurate to say that Italy was the first fascist country.

author=Gourd_Clae
Try searching for "italian fascism vs decline" or "italian fascism vs decadence" they're essentially the same concepts! I think the way neofascists use it is probably more important though.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Volksgemeinschaft (There's a section on it here)
https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf

I'm actually pretty sick right now (don't really want to be looking at a screen for much longer), unless there's something in particular you want me to read, I'm probably just going to bow out of this conversation.

Most of the results I'm getting from those two searches don't seem relevant to the conversation, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see in the two links you gave me.

I guess the tl;dr is that I don't think criticism or disenfranchisement with modern art is necessarily a gateway drug to the alt-right.

That being said, I also don't think iddalai's right about modern artists being inferior to older ones, either. Guys like Craig Mullins likely won't be remembered the same way Michelangelo was, but they're still just as cool.

author=Gourd_Clae
The idea that modern art has degenerated (along with the rest of culture) is a core tenet of fascism, along with veneration of tradition over all else, rigid violently enforced hierarchies etc. It's not just a random opinion that a random fascist happens to agree with.

A core tenant, though?

Kind of a stretch, plus (as far as I can tell) the concept of 'degenerate art' was more a German thing, not particularly practised by the Italian fascists.

Galarians.

I knew it was an obscure PS1 title, picked up a movie adaptation of it at a retro media store.

Kind of reminds me of being a kid, and watching some random garbage on teletoon, late at night.

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