[Update December 2021, this spot I never really took seriously but now I definitively want to state that's not a real thesis I endorse.]
The Wikipedia Page on the origins of Nazism lists two major late 18th and early 19th German philosophers as the key progenitors of what would be become the Aryan Nazi Race theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism#Origins
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)
Herder was a confirmed documented member of the Bavarian Illuminati and has also been called the founder of German Nationalism.
https://projekte.uni-erfurt.de/illuminaten/Mitglieder_des_Illuminatenordens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Illuminati_members
Fichte was not a known Illuminati member but was a member of a later German society that Illuminati members were connected to and even ran. The Rudolstadt Masonic Lodge ‘Günther zum stehenden Löwen,’ ran by Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Beulwitz (1755–1829) the head of the Rudolstadt Illuminati since 1784.
Other confirmed Illuminati members who anticipated Nazi ideas were.
Christoph Meiners (1747-1810)
Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (1752-1810)
Samuel Thomas von Sommerring (1755-1830)
Meanwhile Georg Forster 1754-1794 is someone Melanson considers a suspected Illuminatus but not quite a confirmed one in his discussion of Mathias Metternich (1747-1825).
Karl August Von Hardenberg was another Illuminatus who had an influence on Prussian history that I feel helped lead to Nazism.
However there are also important differences between each of these individuals beliefs and what would become Nazi ideology. The Nazis themselves very selectively used the writings of many who came before them.
Some important philosophical middlemen between the Illuminati era and the Nazis would be Ernst Moritz Arndt, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Arthur Schopenhauer, Franz Ignaz Pruner, Karl Vogt, August Schleicher, Paul de Lagarde, Heinrich von Treitschke, Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Stoecker, Georg Ritter von Schonerer, Bernhard Forster, Friedrich Ratzel, Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg, Emil Kirdorf, Guido von List, Ludwig Schemann, Theodor Fritsch, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Carl Peters, Wolfgang Kapp, Alfred Ploetz, Adolf Bartels, Hugo Bruckmann, J. F. Lehmann, Karl Maria Wiligut, Heinrich Claß, Dietrich Eckart, Franz Ritter von Epp and Karl Haushofer.
Among the members of the German Nobility tied to the Illuminati were the House of Hesse-Kassel via Prince Charles, and other branches of Hesse like Darmstadt. The heirs of Hesse alive during WWII were among the minority of German Nobles who joined the Nazi Party, Christophe of Hesse was even an SS Member. Another nobleman to join the Nazi Party was Charles Edward Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who was a direct Heir to Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha who harbored Adam Weishaupt. The then Duke of Brunswick was a Nazi too.
While both the Nazi Party and Italian Fascism are Right Wing ideologies in the context of modern Politics, labeling them Reactionaries in the context of post French Revolution political upheavals would be misleading or at least an oversimplification. Both parties were in the beginning against restoring the old traditional Monarchy, however it was easier for Hitler to stick to that, Mussolini pretty much had to backtrack on his original positions and compromise with the King and the Vatican. They saw themselves as continuing not undoing the Revolutions, simply taking them in a different direction then Marxism.
The roots of Italian Fascism can perhaps also be directly traced back to the Bavarian Illuminati. All you have to do is look at the Wikipedia pages for Mussolini’s father and Ghost Writers to see his ideology can be traced back to Carlo Pisacane, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Mussolini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Lanzillo
Even though Mazzini was on the political Left in the context of his time he actually hated Karl Marx (and the feeling was mutual), he was anti Monarchy and anti Clerical but very strongly a Nationalist. Mazzini joined the Carbonari in 1827, but he’d later leave it to start his own similar organizations. The Carbonari's origins are difficult to fully pin down, but they could lie in the activities of some Italain Illuminati members like Francesco Mario Pagano (1748-1799) and Nicola Pacifico (1734-1799; alias: Franciscus Patricius).
Among the Frenchmen known to be recruited to the Illuminati by Bode in 1787 was Roëttiers de Montaleau, he later founded the Genevan Grand Orient Lodge “Des Amis Sincères” on June 7th, 1796. This Lodge was joined in 1806 by Philippe Buonarroti another figure important to the history of both the Carbonari and Mazzini, and he had ties to Robespierre. His biography of Babeuf (sometimes accused of misrepresenting Babeuf’s ideology, but I don’t know enough to form an opinion on that) was an influence on many Revolutionaries of various ideologies from Marx to Mazzini to Blangui. Blanquism differed from Marxism in many key ways, The Italian fascist newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia, founded and edited by Benito Mussolini, had a quotation by Blanqui on its mast: Chi ha del ferro ha del pane ("He who has iron, has bread").
Sorelianism also played a role in how some of the post Revolutionary ideas morphed into Fascism.
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