He was just an Italian lib who didn't like Mussolini, and that's OK. His Ur-Fascism essay is pretty useless, but his personal recollections of growing up under fascism are fascinating.

>>24986343
Everything
Kys
Write something better. Oh, you can't? I guess you're just a talentless retard then. kill urself.

No matter what he might have been right about it's too late for him to shake off that pseud physiognomy.

>>24986362
Ur-Fascism is very useful, so long as you don't treat it as a literal checklist of fascism, which he explicitly says to not do in the essay but a lot of people do it anyway.

>>24986780
Its about as useful as a definition of communism from an anti-communist, which is to say its not useful at all.

ITT: fags

>>24986809
People are capable of writing objectively about things they disagree with.

>>24986886
people can write objectively about anything but it doesn't mean that they do

Does Eco have a better understanding of fascism than the people that pioneered it? I dont think so

>>24987227
Given fascists tend to be delusional, intellectually bankrupt retards, he probably does understand it better actually.

>>24987307
Boogeyman shit with the goal of reducing the meaning of fascism to “anything I don’t like”
Stop posting here.