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Without your bad rephrasing:
1 - "The cult of tradition" - At no point he gives any shit to tradition
2 - "The rejection of modernism" - That's partial at best, and partial hits do not count on that scale
3 - "The cult of action for action's sake" - Yes
4 - "Disagreement is treason" - Absolutely not
5 - "Fear of difference" - Dude, how the fuck did you claim he hits that one? Absolutely not
6 - "Appeal to a frustrated middle class" - Yes
7 - "Obsession with a plot" - Yes
8 - cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak" - Their enemies are never strong
9 - "Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy" - Absolutely not
10 - "Contempt for the weak" - Absolutely not
11 - "Everybody is educated to become a hero" - Yes
12 - "Machismo" - Yes
13 - "Selective populism" - Yes
14 - "Newspeak" - No
Anyway, it's complete bullshit to just list those criteria like they are a checklist. I've listed them here just to show that even that bullshit argument is bullshit by its own standards.
Are you claiming that fascists don't need to be authoritarian? It's not on the list, by the way.
Fear of difference. He literally beats the shit out of the pretty guy for being "different" and pretty. Project Mayhem are all forced to dress the same and have no names. They are forced to shave their heads and become his "space monkeys." They are berated for a week in front of the building before being accepted. EDIT: Further, this treatment of the Project Mayhem recruits is authoritarian, they have to follow all Tyler's rules which they repeat them ad nauseum and they have to shed their prior identity to fit into the new group.
Cast the enemies as both too strong and too weak. In the film Tyler plans to destroy credit card companies and reset debt to zero, a lot of people would claim the financial system is an enemy that is strong, but also portrayed as weak when they strong-arm the politician threatening to cut his balls off. In the book he wants to destroy museums, destroying history, writing a new history, which is also fascist. He says museums represent a dead world and that "this is our world now."
Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. They threaten to cut off people's balls who threaten to expose them, the cops are literally about to do it to the narrator/Tyler himself at the end of the film, because stopping Project Mayhem is a pacifist route.
If you don't see the contempt for the weak here and how they only accepted Bob into their fold because the narrator pitied him, I don't know what to tell you. Tyler would have rejected Bob as unfit and weak. When their homework is to go start a fight, the lesson is that most people will avoid fights (and by extension this makes them "weak"). Fight Club is portrayed as "strong" because they will chase a fight. They're different, they're special, they're enlightened by violence (once again, fear of difference).
These are the ones we obviously disagree on, so these are the ones I'm addressing.
But yeah, 10 out of 14 is pretty telling in my opinion. No, this list of Eco's isn't definitive, but it's got good depth and is a good starting point showing that clearly Tyler has fascist tendencies. Enough that I am comfortable calling him fascist
EDIT: Also while there is no strict nationalism, the entire plot is deeply Amero-centric and treats the rest of the world as though it functionally does not exist when it comes to Tyler's plans.
Not. a. single. foreign. airport. Not even Canada.
It's been too long since I've read the book, but at least in the film it's consumer culture in particular that he's talking about when it comes to modernity. I think most of us agree with him on that one
Tyler Durden in Fight Club. There's a similar, slightly shorter version in the film when the narrator is in his "coma" and wakes up to Tyler gone, this is the dialogue Tyler speaks as he is abandoning the narrator just as the narrator's own father abandoned him.
I don't know how to read that any more clearly as a complete rejection of modernity, not just consumer culture.
I haven't read this book in almost 20 years myself, but I remember these salient aspects of the text.
EDIT: Does no one else remember this kind of media from the early 2000's (and really made it around on reddit, it was quite popular) clearly inspired by Fight Club and the "what to do in an emergency" flight cards, which the comic obviously mimics. To act like this wasn't a major theme is literally absurd. The comic is presented in "how-to" format starting as a white collar office worker riot that eventually leads to the office being a tribal society inside the office building.
Obviously Fight Club Inspired Comic:


Emergency Flight Card from Fight Club: