Final solution Pre-Machtergreifung Post-Machtergreifung Parties The aestheticization of politics was an idea first coined by critical theorist Walter Benjamin as being a key ingredient to fascist regimes.
[2]This has also been noted as being connected to the Italian Futurist movement and postulated as its main motivation for getting involved in the fascist regime of Italy.
The historian Emilio Gentile has stressed that these two ideas are not mutually exclusive, and have a large degree of the other.
In Benjamin's original formulation, the politicization of aesthetics was considered the opposite of the aestheticization of politics, the latter possibly being indicated as an instrument of "mythologizing" totalitarian Fascist regimes.
[4] Benjamin's concept has been linked to Guy Debord's 1967 book, The Society of the Spectacle.