There is many a surprising twist and turn in Roberto Franzosi’s book about content analysis.[1] Today I stumbled upon a page that touches on the origin of fascism in Italy. Citing two experts on the subject, Franzosi states that fascism represents the class struggle of the petty bourgeoisie, wedged between capital and proletariat, as well as that it is a middle-class movement against both capitalism and socialism, as represented by big business and big unions.[2] I was electrified at once. “Zagreb,” it flashed through my mind. The very capital of petty bourgeoisie or the middle class (“Zagreb and the Jews,” August 2, 2008), Zagreb is a natural setting for fascistic ideas of all sorts. Ah, it is an unsurpassable joy being the leading theoretician of this miserable country on the very edge of the known world!

Footnotes

1. From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

2. Op. cit., p. 119.