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have there been more fascist or communist intellectuals throughout history?

Definitely Communist ones since Fascism was a phenomenon almost entirely exclusive to Europe in the early to mid 20th century. Communism has existed since at least the mid 19th century (but arguably back even during the 18th century if you count Robert Owens and his utopian socialism as well as certain parts of the French revolution which happened before Marx and Engles wrote the manifesto), has seen widespread (one could say, l'internationale) appeal across the globe, and isn't considered verboten in the modern day with at least one ostensibly communist superpower still remaining.

>>17894555 (OP)
communist but that's only because of the fact most were university elites whereas fascists were the true working classes. the idea communism is nothing more than the educated elite trying overthrow kings becomes more obvious the more you dig into history.

>>17894555 (OP)
more communists simply because fascist countries were largely destroyed during the second world war and communist countries survived until the 1990s

>>17894555 (OP)
Even ignoring that fact that communist ideology had existed for almost a century by the origin of Fascism. Communists still had much larger amount of major philosophers within the last 100 years compared to Fascism. There's Mussolini, Gentile, Evola and Freda but outside of those 4 there's functionally no one else even which represents any form of Fascist intellectualism

>>17894555 (OP)
Communist intellectuals far outnumber fascist ones... Marx, Lenin, Gramsci, Sartre, etc versus fringe figures like Evola or Gentile. Fascism's anti-intellectual streak (praising action over theory) limited its "thinkers", while communism built entire academic traditions. Both produced atrocities, but only one had a PhD fanclub.

As at arts and war, it is a matter of quantity vs quality.
There are fewer fascist writers given censorship after WW2 and yet the few ones there are (Mussolinni, Evola, Primo de River, Gómez Davila, Hitler, Perón, Jung, etc) quite surprass their commie counterparts at complexity and deepness.

Communists resort to the number, this is, a lie repeated 1,000,000 times at the end becomes true, Fascists resort to truth.