Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able, as they were writing. What I do undertake to maintain is that what they wrote, however noble it may have been as literature, however true as a summary of experience, was disastrous as education for a generation which would be obliged to face the threat of fascism in its adult years...
...America has had a way of life in the past, surely these present symptoms are not in agreement with that way of life. Small though they may be now, they must be recognized as the tender yet tenacious roots of an incipient American Fascism that may not have to take off its hat to any breed of Fascism grown abroad. Even if they provide no tremendous threat in themselves, and this is not by any means certain, they can serve as precedents for far more injurious movements in the not too distant future. America's battle against Fascism...
...fight now going on directed against fascism? If so, is it not necessary to condemn fascism without equivocation to resist it effectively? Are not half-hearted measures fatal, as they are doomed to failure and hasten the extension to the rest of the world of the social and economic system which already exists in Germany, Italy, and Spain...
...Remembering that the results of the war of 1914 led Italy and Germany into fascism, with the connivance or toleration of the victors, may one ask what is going to prevent the world from resorting to fascism after this war? Impoverished countries will need increased taxation and financial levies. Will not an increased governmental power be necessary which, with the cooperation of big business men and industrialists (ef. Thyssen in Germany), will impose the new social order, regulate human activity, and limit individual freedom? Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...
...swept the western U.S. farm country and the Knights of Labor after the Civil War, two notable fantasies of the future were written. Caesar's Column, by that stanch Populist orator and Baconian, Ignatius Donnelly, depicted the late 20th Century as an extravaganza of what is now called Fascism, only in ancient stage Roman costume. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, gave readers in 1888 a more plausible picture of a future State Socialism which in technological details at least radio, television, movies was remarkably prophetic...