Fascism and related ideologies are again in vogue some places in Europe and around the world, so I thought it would be interesting to have a discussion about the topic.
Also, what does the term really mean? Who is a fascist? The below article (highly recommended) attempts to list all the defining features of fascism.
Also, what does the term really mean? Who is a fascist? The below article (highly recommended) attempts to list all the defining features of fascism.
Full article: Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt (Umberto Eco, on TheModernWorld.com, first published in New York Review of Books, 2nd June 1995, pp.12-15.)In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.
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