by
Max Maxwell and
Melete
"Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in 1984, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All 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. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show."
- Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, 1995.
Table of Contents
THE METHODS OF THE
ORWELLIAN STYLE OF
U.S. POLITICAL TALK
SOCRATES
AND
THE ART OF POLITICAL REFORM