“It is better to die fighting than to live as one vanquished”

I was asked about this quote some time ago, but got sidetracked and never wrote it up.

This is an interesting one, because it’s from a book by the Italian fascist reactionary writer, Julius Evola (1898 to 1974). I initially described him as a fascist, but it’s been pointed out to be that he was a critic of fascism.

From what little I’ve seen of his writings, he was profoundly antagonistic to democracy (aka “parliamentarian cancer”).

Because the superiority of superior men is expressed, among other things, in the fact that they are capable of discerning what truly is of