Hello and welcome to Red Minus.

My name is Allison and I am here with my co-host Brett and we are very excited to be back this

month for another episode where we are diving into a work of theory and philosophy to discuss

for those who haven't been following kind of where we've been at recently.

We have kind of taken a little bit of a detour to look at some texts from some of the kind

of big reactionary thinkers in sort of western reactionary and fascist politics in order

to try to understand what their position is and understand how we can critique it and understand

it better from a Marxist perspective.

So we previously looked at Nietzsche and now this month we will be turning to a philosopher

who is definitely extremely influenced by Nietzsche and you will be hearing a lot of

references to Nietzsche throughout this episode which is Julius Evola who was an Italian.

He didn't describe himself as fascist, he described himself as a super fascist or ultra-fascist

thinker who published several really influential works on what he calls traditionalism or the

traditionalist school and we will be diving this month into his text Ride the Tiger.

I'll go ahead and pass it over to you for a little more context on who Evola is and what's

going on here.

Sure, yeah.

So I think this is a very strange and interesting character and you'll definitely see some

echoes of Schopenhauer Nietzsche episode that we did last time and as Alison said, he's

an Italian, not even, he's known as a fascist intellectual but as she said, he positions

himself to the right of fascism and so sometimes that term is even, you know, might not be used

totally properly to encompass who he is but basically, and this is like a brief edited version

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