Fascism combats .. not intelligence, but intellectualism.. which is.. a sickness of the intellect.. not a consequence of its abuse, because the intellect cannot be used too much.. it derives from the false belief that one can segregate oneself from life.
Related to this, is the confrontation between the Spanish franquist General, Millán Astray, and the writer Miguel de Unamuno during the Dia de la Raza celebration at the University of Salamanca, in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War.