"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...."
That's not so much a fascist sentiment as a sentiment that disarms many intellectuals and leaves them defenseless, when they see a movement that claims to restore order by rejecting Capitalism and Communism (or British Imperialism and Irish Democracy), opening the Third Way with conviction.
That is not to say that Yeats was a fascist -- Cf. "Yeats among the Fascists," <http://world.std.com/~jorge/jl_pages/school/yeats_frameset.html>. -- Yoshie
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