The Following Is an Excerpt from the Futurist Manifest of Filippo

question 58

Multiple Choice

The following is an excerpt from the Futurist manifest of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Evaluating the Evidence 26.2) : "8. We stand on the last promontory of the centuries! . . . Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed. 9. We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene-militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.10. We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice."
How did Marinetti and the Futurists see war?

• A)War will not be possible owing to interlocking international economies.
• B)War and its ideals will be idolized by Futurists.
• C)War will soon be entirely in the past, as utopia is within reach.
• D)War is the tool of capitalists who want to enslave the proletariat, but Futurists are not fooled by this conspiracy of the middle class.

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