How to Spot a Fascist — When Authoritarianism Changes Its Clothes
What if authoritarianism becomes most difficult to recognize when it no longer resembles the regimes preserved in historical memory?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco as our lens, this investigation explores Eco’s concept of “Ur-Fascism”: a recurring family of cultural, psychological, and political tendencies that can reassemble themselves in different combinations.
Eco’s argument moves beyond the search for one definitive feature. Traditionalism, irrationalism, fear of difference, social frustration…
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