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The famous Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, list the 14 traits of fa scism in his 1995 essay “Ur-Fa scism." Eco grew up under Mussolini’s fa scist regime.
• The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every Fa scist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Na zi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
• The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fa scism can be defined as irrationalism.”
• The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
• Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
• Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fa scist or prematurely fa scist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fa scism is ra cist by definition.”
• Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fa scism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
• The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fa scist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
• The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
• Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fa scism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
• Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
• Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fa scist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult ofDeath.”
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• Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandardSexual habits, from chastity to homo5exuality.”
• Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
• Ur-Fa scism speaks Newspeak. “All the Na zi or Fa scist 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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