>>3208
>title is an absurd self-contradictory straw man position which misses the point
Might as well stop reading there, honestly.
>>3209
>Mussolini was not an intellectual
Prior to becoming dictator, he was. Almost a textbook case, even, being a well-read political journalist and a huge producer/extender of Fascism.
>but conflates it as essentially being one of those make-believe social tools used for the political wrangling of masses of people into one cause or another that benefits the ruling class
It absolutely is. Break down the Whites into all the subgroups, and all those subgroups into more subgroups. This is very easy to weaponise, in fact many neo-Nazi organisations self-destruct over it with little or no interference.
It's a ruling class, not a ruling cloud of powerful people. Their uniting factor is their ruling position, not their 'race awareness' or nepotism. They're acutely aware of their class, the benefits it affords them, and the fear of a united nation threatening their ruling position is far more potent than race. Economics are the basis of power, of thriving despite being inbred genetic failure, of being an uneducated starving mess despite being the most pure race. Look how two-faced even the liberal elites are about racial equality, it's blatantly absolute PR posturing and virtue false-flagging to make consumers comfortable. But when races unite fight the ruling class, they panic.
The ruling class, first and foremost, care about maintaining their rule. All the lofty social ideals they care about don't matter once their money is threatened. If their rule is threatened, they have an obvious best interest to divide the working class with lower/middle divisions, with stupid political spectacle positions, with religion, and yes, with race.
>Then the purpose of "nations" has escaped you.
The nation is a corpus, to unite the people within it and act as one powerful collective force. It's not a penis to stroke while one looks to the past.