Marinetti challenges the longstanding traditions of Italian life by constructing provoking manifestos that undermine customary syntax and rationality; because much of his writing comprises the use of subtle and contradictory nuances, Marinetti’s ideas appear to display a more fascist and misogynist organization. He does not want men and women to be equal, but he wants to empower women to enhance the races. However, Marinetti is not a misogynist; he actually displays more of a quasi-feminist view of women—his scorn for woman and disdain for marriage and family is due to old traditions and values established and conserved through a confined and corrupt government. While Marinetti’s misogynistic and contradictory remarks certainly call to offend
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Marinetti’s goal is to ally with women and empower them, so that they can destroy parliamentarianism and it’s “manufacturers of justice” (57). He seeks to cleanse the world of parliamentary democracy and sentimentalism, but in order to get rid of sentimentalism, he needs to attack the oppressors of freedom. To Marinetti, the government is nothing but a tyrannical union organized and controlled by the upper, wealthier social class: “As a result of parliamentarianism, an entire nation is at the mercy of those who, using the malleable metal of the law, carefully lay traps for the foolish” (57). Anyone under the authority of the government is subject to its deceptions; because the structures of government create laws made of malleable metals, they are able to be bent and hammered into other shapes and forms without breaking them. Laws are nothing but an invention just like love is an invention created by poets. Like poets, authoritarians of justice will withdraw freedom “as one takes back a manuscript from the hands of a publisher who has shown that he is incapable of publishing it decently” (55). That is the trap that the foolish fall for; although they can gain the freedom to carry out said freedom and choice, they are confined to a set of restrictions and limited to how they can exercise their freedom and liberty. Marinetti hopes to provide women with autonomy and free will, offering them a way to become a positive role in
Marinetti’s goal is to ally with women and empower them, so that they can destroy parliamentarianism and it’s “manufacturers of justice” (57). He seeks to cleanse the world of parliamentary democracy and sentimentalism, but in order to get rid of sentimentalism, he needs to attack the oppressors of freedom. To Marinetti, the government is nothing but a tyrannical union organized and controlled by the upper, wealthier social class: “As a result of parliamentarianism, an entire nation is at the mercy of those who, using the malleable metal of the law, carefully lay traps for the foolish” (57). Anyone under the authority of the government is subject to its deceptions; because the structures of government create laws made of malleable metals, they are able to be bent and hammered into other shapes and forms without breaking them. Laws are nothing but an invention just like love is an invention created by poets. Like poets, authoritarians of justice will withdraw freedom “as one takes back a manuscript from the hands of a publisher who has shown that he is incapable of publishing it decently” (55). That is the trap that the foolish fall for; although they can gain the freedom to carry out said freedom and choice, they are confined to a set of restrictions and limited to how they can exercise their freedom and liberty. Marinetti hopes to provide women with autonomy and free will, offering them a way to become a positive role in