Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco) [View all]
... 1. The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition ...
3 ... Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation ...
6 ... Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition ...
7. To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country ...
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak ... All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning ...
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