What is fascism really?
Here is an abridged version of Umberto Eco's identifying characteristics. from Open Culture. Paywall blocked the New York Review of Books original from 1995.
We all want to name things so we can hold them in our minds. My friend Henry names things socialist and I name things fascist. We're both right and wrong. Neither of us wants a totalitarian state so recent history informs us maybe too much. The state I want would cycle through periods of leaning towards equality and then back towards liberty. I get off the equality train before Democrats generally and probably ride the liberty train out to where old fashioned Republicans were. Somewhere in that middle ground in constant flux is fairness to both the group and the individual. Eco's list
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One of them. And the features are allowed to contradict. It's a post-modernist definition: with this list, almost everything can be described as fascism, so we can use the label for anything we want, and march into battle. |
Yeah, I don't think we can use checklists for this. That kind of black and white thinking is you know, fascist. ;)
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