For any in need of a refresher, Ecoβ 14 characteristics:
While Eco is firm in claiming βThere was only one Nazism,β he says, βthe fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.β Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls βUr-Fascism, or Eternal Fascismβ down to 14 βtypicalβ features. βThese features,β writes the novelist and semiotician, βcannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.β
- The cult of tradition. βOne has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.β
- The rejection of modernism. βThe Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.β
- The cult of action for actionβs sake. βAction being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.β
- Disagreement is treason. βThe critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.β
- Fear of difference. βThe first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.β
- Appeal to social frustration. βOne of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.β
- The obsession with a plot. βThus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.β
- The enemy is both strong and weak. βBy a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.β
- Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. βFor Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.β
- Contempt for the weak. βElitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.β
- Everybody is educated to become a hero. βIn Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.β
- Machismo and weaponry. βMachismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.β
- Selective populism. βThere is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.β
- Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. βAll the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.β
So, is Il Douche a fascist? Yes, yes and hell yes. (I was gonna put 14 "yes"s, but thatβs a lot of typing.)