“Ur-Fascism,” wrote the Italian thinker Umberto Eco, derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a ...

Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" outlines 14 common features of fascism based on his experience growing up as a boy in ...

Thanks to Umberto Eco and his visit to Warsaw in 1968 ... he knew that Western and Eastern Blocs had quite a lot in common: women in miniskirts were reading Elle (commonly found in hotels) or the ...