![]() ![]() To many Americans-mostly white Americans-Eco’s question has long felt academic. “We are here to remember what happened and solemnly say that ‘They’ must not do it again,” he wrote. “ It would be so much easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, ‘I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares.’ Life is not that simple.” Eco, the great theorist and novelist, had been an adolescent in northern Italy under Mussolini’s fascist regime, and half a century later, as ultranationalist demagoguery and violence were set aflame by the Cold War’s last European embers, he began to wonder how to recognize, and mobilize against, a nascent fascist regime. ![]() “Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes,” Umberto Eco wrote in 1995.
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