Mister Mike
Patron
I don't know if anybody has mentioned it, but something has to be mentioned about Hubbard's like or simpatico-ness with far-Right ideas. It's my understanding that on one version of the tone scale Hubbard has Fascists slightly above Communists. I'm not saying that Hubbard was an ideologue of some strain of crypto-Naziism, but rather that the man had tendencies toward authoritarianism, and politically that style of thought manifests itself in the groups like the John Birch Society, the various groups Lyndon LaRouche has run, the Minutemen, and scads of like-minded groups in Europe, Africa, and Asia (too many to mention.)
In many ways Hubbard reminds me of the Italian writer and aristocrat Julius Evola (1898-1974.) Evola was involved in a lot of occultic research, but before that he had been involved with the Italian Futurist movement, which was an art movement of the early 20th century revolving around speed, power, youth, violence, and technology. Many members of the Futurist movement later became members of the Italian Fascist party, seeing the ideals of the party as extensions of Futurism. Evola never joined the blackshirts or the Grand Council of Fascism, but he was considered a fellow traveller, and long after Fascism exited the Italian political stage he was writing his crypto-fascist books and secretly supporting neo-fascist terrorist groups in the early 1970s during the "Years of Lead" when the far-Right was fighting the far-Left. Of course there are people who will say that Evola was not a fascist, but I would say that his politics actually starts where Fascism runs out: a state where tradition is enshrined, where politics and religion are the same thing, an anti-populist, un-democractic place, run by priest-aristocrats. The closest thing I can think fits Evola's scheme would have to be the Aztec or Mayan empires.
In many ways Hubbard reminds me of the Italian writer and aristocrat Julius Evola (1898-1974.) Evola was involved in a lot of occultic research, but before that he had been involved with the Italian Futurist movement, which was an art movement of the early 20th century revolving around speed, power, youth, violence, and technology. Many members of the Futurist movement later became members of the Italian Fascist party, seeing the ideals of the party as extensions of Futurism. Evola never joined the blackshirts or the Grand Council of Fascism, but he was considered a fellow traveller, and long after Fascism exited the Italian political stage he was writing his crypto-fascist books and secretly supporting neo-fascist terrorist groups in the early 1970s during the "Years of Lead" when the far-Right was fighting the far-Left. Of course there are people who will say that Evola was not a fascist, but I would say that his politics actually starts where Fascism runs out: a state where tradition is enshrined, where politics and religion are the same thing, an anti-populist, un-democractic place, run by priest-aristocrats. The closest thing I can think fits Evola's scheme would have to be the Aztec or Mayan empires.