This is a brilliant article. I would just like to add that it seems to me you can summarize what fascism is by saying it is the attempt to impose premodern, tri

This is a brilliant article. I would just like to add that it seems to me you can summarize what fascism is by saying it is the attempt to impose premodern, tribalistic social forms and ways of thinking on a modern, industrial society. This is not workable, and so I think it accounts for the many ideological contradictions that Eco points out.