With history is repeating itself these months, a quotation from 1921:
“Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth … then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity … . From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable.”
That’s from Benito Mussolini, in Diuturna [The Lasting] (1921).
The path from skepticism about objectivity to relativism to epistemological equivalence to subjective fictiveness to physicalist activism? Are we describing Fascism and/or Antifa?
Related posts on Mussolini.