A obsessão por ruínas nos fascismos históricos

In support of the thesis that the distinctive character of fascism is its suicidal nature, recently taken up by Vladimir Safatle (2020), for whom this has been updated in recent years and thrives amid the current global rise of the extreme right, this essay to debate some determinations of historical fascisms, having as main reference the work Os Labirintos do Fascismo, by João Bernardo, namely: the aesthetics of ruins, the fascist cult of death, the links between fascism and total war, and the fascist production of necrophilic and exterminist subjectivities.