It is the very soulless, effete, and postmodern urban civilization that has been growing up all around us that, it turns out, may provide fertile soil for fascism, by providing it with an environment it can rally against. Communism, too, or some variation of it, may find a sort of rebirth, only because it idealizes the romantic and seemingly virtuous left-wing extreme, and is thus suited to the 21st-century crowd.