Category:Fascism Tropes

"Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements. This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions."

- Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism", The New York Review of Books, June 22, 1995

Tropes about fascism and its failings.

Compare and contrast with Category:Reichstropen.