埃科同学30年前的一篇短文，题为“Ur-Fascim”。几年前又被收入一个小册子（《How to spot a fascist》）出版。
“Ur-Fascim”里面总结了法西斯主义的14个特点。第一个，就是“cult of tradition”。法西斯主义文化是一个“syncretic”文化。“‘Syncretism’ is not merely ... the combination of different forms of beliefs or practices. A combination like this must tolerate contradictions.”
具体到埃科同学本国，“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“三同学欢聚一橱窗”难免有非原创的嫌疑 :-)。如果外延到墙外世界尺度，太（大）祖、教主和大帝三家共享的热情爱好者群体也不无非原创的嫌疑 :-)
另外埃科同学当然不能不提到 Duce 同学：
“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.’ ”
上次传人兄介绍的那篇怒诉西方古今诸万恶“白左”人士的酱缸雄文中，居然漏掉了埃科同学 :-)
谢传人兄分享。新一周开心
