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Umberto Eco

Ur-Fascism

Umberto Eco's classic text on the eternal attributes of fascism.

Ur-Fascism - Audio book

An audio book of Umberto Eco's essay on the development of Fascism. Produced by the group Audible Anarchist.

Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt - Umberto Eco

In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. 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…

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