Evola on Feminism
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Evola on Feminism
by Julius Evola
Taken from “ Il Corriere Padano ”, XI, 5 January 1933
The leveling and depersonalizing disease that prostrates modern civilization has such complex and sprawling aspects, that not everyone is able to recognize him behind the masks to oppose each of its forms a decisive revolt and a conscious reaction.
The lady and the knight, one of the most significant archetypes of the power of the Man-Woman relationship correctly framed in the sacred riverbed of Tradition ( in the image, “ The End of the Quest ” by Frank Dicksee, 1921 )
So it is a fact that, it does not pay to have compromised by now almost irreparably those differences in caste, nature and internal dignity that they did at first to any healthy traditional organization; striving to bring every value back under the law of quantity and the anonymity of the mere social collective, a contaminating ideology wants that, after the leveling between man and man, one also proceeds to that between sex and sex and in this one considers a « conquest, a « progress ». Epperò, from the same anti-hierarchical and anti-qualitative strain of many forms of modern degenerescence we see the conate « feministic » stand out and take shape in the two countries that are almost like the two branches of a single pincer in the act of closing, from East and West, around ancient Europe: Soviet Russia and America – since the Bolshevik equalization of women to men in every respect of social life is perfectly reflected with the complete emancipation that has long been granted to them beyond from the ocean.
Here it is not a question of personal aversions, nor of prejudices of an era or a people. In the feminist phenomenon it is essentially to be considered a symptom which, reconnected from a precise logic to many others, indicates the advent of a conception through which the very ideal of « culture », of civilization, especially in the traditional classical sense, he comes to be fatally hit.
The fundamental meaning of each civilization was that of a victory of form over formless, of « kosmos » over « chaos ». Thus, and characteristically, at the center of the classical vision of life and the state we find precisely the cult and enhancement of the limit, of the form, of the difference, of the clear personality. The world is « kosmos », and not « chaos », since, similar to a harmonious living organism, it it consists of a set of finite parts, which each have a precise function, proper and unmistakable in the whole; whose good, whose « truth » therefore does not consist in the cessation of their individuality and in going back to the unqualified, the identical, the indefinite – towards what they become mystically or atomistically one thing – but instead consists in being more and more themselves, in expressing their own nature better and better, in bringing their identification deeper and deeper, thus making the great body completely richer, more varied and determined.
To the evasion and pantheistic visions, which place the good in the impersonal, in the undifferentiated, and almost intend to be individuals as a fault or punishment, our best traditions always opposed this enhancement of difference, limit, identification. So they established the principle, by virtue of which, on the basis of natural differences between beings, a hierarchical order could arise and constitute itself in « gens », in the city, in the State and, at the limit, in the Empire.
Immediately, nothing and no being of nature is only « self »; but this condition of « mixing », which was recognized for « the things below », it was traditionally considered a condition of imperfection, and he set himself the task of institutional norms, morals and, finally, asceticism, the overcome it the nuclear distinct types, genres, classes and individuals – just as the artist draws his figures from the shapeless matter. Such was the traditional concept of culture or civilization: shape – we repeat – victorious over « chaos ».