埃科同學30年前的一篇短文，題為“Ur-Fascim”。幾年前又被收入一個小冊子（《How to spot a fascist》）出版。
“Ur-Fascim”裏麵總結了法西斯主義的14個特點。第一個，就是“cult of tradition”。法西斯主義文化是一個“syncretic”文化。“‘Syncretism’ is not merely ... the combination of different forms of beliefs or practices. A combination like this must tolerate contradictions.”
具體到埃科同學本國，“The most important theorist of the new Italian right, Julius Evola, mixed the Grail with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and alchemy with the Holy Roman Empire. The very fact that ... a part of the Italian right has recently widened its syllabus by putting together De Maistre, Guénon, and Gramsci is glaring evidence of syncretism. ”
所以王府井上的“三同學歡聚一櫥窗”難免有非原創的嫌疑 :-)。如果外延到牆外世界尺度，太（大）祖、教主和大帝三家共享的熱情愛好者群體也不無非原創的嫌疑 :-)
另外埃科同學當然不能不提到 Duce 同學：
“Contrary to commonly held belief, Italian Fascism did not have a philosophy of its own. The article on Fascism signed by Mussolini for the Enciclopedia Treccani was written or fundamentally inspired by Giovanni Gentile, but it reflected a late-Hegelian notion of the ‘ethical and absolute state’ that Mussolini never completely realised. Mussolini had no philosophy: all he had was rhetoric. He started out as a militant atheist, only to sign the Concordat with the Church and to consort with the bishops who blessed the Fascist banners. In his early anticlerical years, according to a plausible story, he once asked God to strike him dead on the spot, to prove His existence. God evidently had other fish to fry at the time. In subsequent years, Mussolini always mentioned God in his speeches and was not above having himself called ‘the man of Providence.’ ”
上次傳人兄介紹的那篇怒訴西方古今諸萬惡“白左”人士的醬缸雄文中，居然漏掉了埃科同學 :-)
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