Posted on 10/02/2015 7:44:33 AM PDT by C19fan
French fascism is alive and well, and its current headquarters (as I write this) are not in the offices of the Front National but, appropriately enough, in the ugliest building in the world in the most beautiful capital city in the world, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It is here that has been held the completely uncritical exhibition to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier, the fascist architect, under the title Le Corbusier, Mesures de l’homme.
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A Corbu thread on Freerepublic? What is the world coming too.
“Fascist architect” ?
The most important thing to remember from Corbu’s plan for Paris, and the whole philosophy of modernism in general, is a glaring dichotomy. We have a top-down imposition a finite, elitist conception of “the good” vs the complex, spontaneous motivations of infinite agents. Jane Jacobs has the best dressing down of modernist planning that’s ever been written. Only too bad for us: No one with her ability has offered a similar critique of Agenda 21, New Urbanism and other top-down utopias.
She praises Saul Alinsky in one of her footnotes in Death and Life of Great American Cities. However, it was published in 1961 when Alinsky was just organizing poor neighborhoods against slum clearing initiatives.
This is great article. The good thing about Corbu is his clarity. Make no mistake, this is exactly what every leftist thinks, but they rarely say it so clearly.
Whether Corbusier was a left totalitarian or right totalitarian is less important than that he was an ideologue.
I hate it when people try to associate all the horrible people with the political side they disagree with.
Conservatives try to disassociate themselves from Hitler by shouting NAZI = National Socialist, but Hitler's economic policies were the least of his horrible crimes.
Totalitarians are totalitarians. They put on rightwing or leftwing clothing as it suits their purposes. Putin is putting on rightwing clothing right now, where as his forefathers (Stalin, Lenin, etc.) put on leftwing clothing.
The Cult of LeTrump is coming.
Ironic that they are both architects/builders.
If you like Fascistic corporate/government cronyism now, you will love it under Trump.
Adolf Schickelgruber ( not PC to say the H word, so I’ll use his real name ) built the Autobahn. Trump will build the Wall.
Both just wanted to make their country great again.
Let’s not forget that Fascism was once praised as modernistic and progressive. FDR called it “ admirable.”
In 1934, the progressive writer Roger Shaw described the New Deal as “Fascist means to gain liberal ends.”
Individualism, free markets, and decentralized power were to be replaced by order, discipline, and planning.
As early as 1912, FDR himself praised the Prussian-German model: “They passed beyond the liberty of the individual to do as he pleased with his own property and found it necessary to check this liberty for the benefit of the freedom of the whole people,”
Arbeit macht Frei.
comments taken from https://reason.com/archives/2007/09/28/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt
It’s telling that Corbu was Right-wing first, but switched to Left-wing when that was all the rage. The point is Corbu was for strong central power that managed and planned every aspect of everyone’s life.
Changing names will not allow you to escape being a victim of Godwin's law. Are you on the streets in the US to see the roach infestation or are you in Europe with your fellow suicide cultists?
Ted's best observation, in all this (and it's worth searching through Google Earth or just looking over some search results of the examples of his work, with eyes that actually do "see") touches upon the man's autism.
It's his modern worshipers who demonstrate "real mental illness."
This is an important piece. Le Corbusier represents the raw and unvarnished physical manifestation of the left’s totalitarian desire to “transform” the “disorder” of a free society into the “rational” world of their pinhead dreams. The result in the United States was what came to be known as “the projects”, places that gave rise to a level of human depravity, suffering and death previously unknown in our history. This is all painfully obvious for those who care to look, but the fact that they are having a hagiographic “exhibition” to celebrate this guy’s “contributions” to the world ought to be a scandal.
Huh? An American conservative espouses freedom of the individual. Hitler had no such view. As a fascist, he had a lot in common with modern American Democrats-gun control, fascist public schools, control of the means of production, and so on. Give us a break with Hitler being a conservative.
His style is dubbed as Brutalism. He left a few brutal buildings around the Greater Boston area.
I like modernism, dada, surrealism.
Simple lines, whimsy and the imagination all evoke something profound in me.
Life just flows and there is often no central or unitive point to it.
We live it as we dream it and we are the author of its meaning and the master of our own destiny.
No.
But he did use conservative cladding to mask his totalitarianism.
That's why liberals still categorize him as conservative because they can't see past the brown shirts.
So are we to learn nothing from the likes of Herr H or Mussolini for fear of crossing Godwin’s Law and be regarded irrelevant?
One doesn’t have to be a cultist to see the revival of fascism coming with LeTrump. He is already telling corporations like Ford where or where not they can build.
Then again FDR praised Fascism so how bad can it really be?
What's your hangup with FDR. His administration was a commie nightmare.
Fascism is here. The only finance now is criminal finance and it's being countenanced by all branches but especially by the executive branch. Government Motors, handouts to bundlers in the guise of environmentalism etc. What are you, Christopher Columbus. You've just discovered America.The 14 dwarfs are no answer. Hey, maybe Trump is a nationalist. No one I know is ever going to put on an arm band and join a death squad. We're Constitutionalists at a time that it's been smothered. Maybe we'd like to not be ruled by a weak tea version of European suicidalism.
Stop being hysterical.
“Then again FDR praised Fascism so how bad can it really be?”
My apologies. I guess you haven’t acculturated the concept of sarcasm. I ain’t got no love for FDR or any kind of progressive thought from the Franklin School.
Stop being a literalist. Get a sense of humor.
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