Meet the scary Italian fascist thinker approvingly cited by Steve Bannon
10 FEB 2017 AT 10:31 ET
During a widely cited lecture he delivered in Rome in 2014, Trump political strategist Steve Bannon approvingly cited an Italian writer named Julius Evola, whose work he said is a key influence on the “traditionalist” worldview that currently guides Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“When Vladimir Putin, when you really look at some of the underpinnings of some of his beliefs today, a lot of those come from what I call Eurasianism,” Bannon said, per a transcript of the talk posted by BuzzFeed. “He’s got an adviser who harkens back to Julius Evola and different writers of the early 20th century who are really the supporters of what’s called the traditionalist movement, which really eventually metastasized into Italian fascism. A lot of people that are traditionalists are attracted to that.”
The New York Times has written a profile of Evola’s life and his work that reveals the thinker is renowned by today’s white nationalists, who are excited that Bannon appears to have read up on the late Italian’s writings.
“Julius Evola is one of the most fascinating men of the 20th century,” notorious white nationalist Richard Spencer tells the Times. “Even if [Bannon] hasn’t fully imbibed them and been changed by them, he is at least open to them. He at least recognizes that they are there. That is a stark difference to the American conservative movement that either was ignorant of them or attempted to suppress them.”
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