(...) Fascism is sexy by nature, more of communism. The Susan Sontag argued that "The charm fascist", an excellent essay on Leni Riefenstahl and Nazi aesthetics, writes: "Boots, leather, chains, Iron Crosses on gleaming chests, swastikas, are the most lucrative secrets and accessories 'eroticism together with butcher's hooks and motorcycles. In the sex shops, in public toilets in gay bars, the brothels, people sporting these disguises. " And Michel Foucault, who knew the dynamics power and he used to frequent gay clubs bdsm, interviewed in the 70s by the Cahiers du Cinéma asked: "How is it that the Nazis, which was made by people miserable, squalid, Puritans, by a sort of Victorian spinsters at the very a bit more 'viziosette, is now everywhere, in France, Germany, the United States, pornographic literature in the world, the absolute reference point of eroticism? The erotic imagery of junk is now placed under the sign of Nazism ". I think we are again faced with the truth is Sylvia Plath, the shoe in his face. (...)
taken from http://fastidio.noblogs.org/post/2009/03/12/nazi-fashion
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