 Outside the current political parallels , some critics have raised more general questions about the film 's ideological orientation . The New York Post 's Kyle Smith wrote that the film would have pleased " Adolf 's boys , " and Slate 's Dana Stevens compares the film to The Eternal Jew , " as a textbook example of how race @-@ baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war . " Roger Moore , a critic for the Orlando Sentinel , relates 300 to Susan Sontag 's definition of " fascist art . " Alleanza Nazionale , an Italian neoconservative political party formed from the collapse of the neo @-@ fascist party MSI , has used imagery from the work within candidate propaganda posters titled : " Defend your values , your civilization , your district " . 
