Also see Eco's "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt".[1] I'd also recommend reading David Neiwert's essays on his blog Orcinus[2], who (m

Also see Eco's "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt".[1] I'd also recommend reading David Neiwert's essays on his blog Orcinus[2], who (more than 15 years ago, long before the rise of Trump, Proud Boys, the alt-right, QAnon, etc) was already extensively discussing Eco's essays and related analysis of fascism and proto-fascism as it manifested in "patriot", militia, and "white nationalist" movements in the US, who Neiwert did extensive investigative reporting on (and published books on this as well). His "The Rise of Pseudo Fascism"[3] and "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism"[4] are good summaries of his work. Also related are Sinclair Lewis' 1935 "It Can't Happen Here"[5] and Jack London's 1908 "The Iron Heel"[6]. [1] - https://interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fascism.html https://interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fasc... [2] - http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/ http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/ [3] - https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/The%20Rise%20Of%20Pseudo%20Fascism.pdf https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/The%20Rise%20Of%20Pseudo%20Fas... [4] - http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/Rush%20Newspeak%20%20Fascism.pdf http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/Rush%20Newspeak%20%20Fascism.pd... [5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here [6] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel