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Yeah, classics is taught in a super fascistic way at most levels of study. Many modern classicists/historians are trying super hard to push back on this narrative but it's not going to be easy to convince people that a many thousand year old narrative is "wrong". That said, I will point out that Athenian Democracy is a pretty interesting innovation in it's own right and it shouldn't be (overly) demonized for it's absurd contradictions (UnderpantsWeevil's comment kinda highlights the biggest ). It's main significance lies in how it involved people directly into "politics" and how that change in conception of "Polis", and what it represented, changes things downstream of Athens in the historical context.
Wait, you first called it fascistic and now it's many thousand years old? How old do you think fascism is and do you think that Ancient Athens was already white supremacist?
Alright fine, proto-fascistic, or you could argue that it's been so fully incorporated into the fascist mythology that it's effectively a part of it. It's not as if fascism arose from the aether. Also while I wouldn't call your average member of the athenian polis "white" supremacist, they were absolutely supremacists.
True, fascist mythology is to a big degree about projecting a golden thread through history. The Germanic people for example do not have a coherent history as the Nazis made it look like. By saying that the narrative is thousands of years old, you imply that western history really is as coherent as fascists make it look like; that European or White identity really is an old thing.
I'll give you a few centuries, 5 or 6 if I'm generous, but not a millennium, much less "many thousand years".
Which is a very different narrative.
I don't really understand what you're trying to say. In this context "fascistic" is a descriptive/indexical term not trying to literally say "the ideological form of facism we understand nowadays arose directly from the legal code of Solon of Athens.".
In your first comment, you said:
So which narrative are you referring to? Is there really a narrative that is many thousand years old? Or are you saying that the narrative is about many thousand years? Your comment reads like the idea that democracy is invented in Athens (and therefore by white Europeans) is many thousand years old which doesn't make much sense to me.
Yeah I'd say the Athenian political narrative had mostly matured no later than Demosthenes. Obviously it's been interpreated and re-interpreted, and twisted and turned into all sorts of purposes, but the broad strokes have largely been taught the same in Europe since then.
A few points:
I recommend reading the author who's quoted in the post. There Never Was A West is a good starting point since it's not too long but id that doesn't matter for you, The Dawn Of Everything is great. I think you'll find all on theanarchistlibrary.org