Fourteen Properties of Fascism

From Umberto Eco. From the Wiki page Ur-fascism. Worth reading the entire page.

1. The cult of tradition

2. The rejection of modernism

3. The cult of action for action’s sake

4. Disagreement is treason

5. Fear of difference

6. Appeal to a frustrated middle class

7. Obsession with a plot

8. Enemies as at the same time too strong and too weak

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy

10. Contempt for the weak

11. Everybody is educated to become a hero

12. Machismo

13. Selective populism

14. Newspeak

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