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Old 12-03-2018, 09:58 AM   #2
Undertoad
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http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/...ying-fascists/

Quote:
In an essay published in the New York Review of Books, Eco distilled the 14 typical elements of "Ur-Fascism or Eternal Fascism," while warning that, "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."
Bold mine.

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.
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