Der Ewige Faschismus by Umberto Eco
Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt
A short essay that identifies a set of recurring characteristics of fascist movements—such as a cult of tradition, rejection of modernity and reason, the primacy of action over reflection, intolerance of dissent, fear and hatred of difference, exaltation of a charismatic leader and virile violence, conspiracy-mindedness, selective populism, and the use of nostalgia and manufactured enemies—which can appear in varying combinations to form a resilient, adaptive authoritarian ideology; it warns that these traits can reemerge in new guises and argues for vigilance, critical thinking, and the defense of pluralistic, democratic values to prevent their return.
- Published
- 1995
- Nationality
- Italian
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- Original Language
- Italian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Eternal Fascism
- Ur-Fascism
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