Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underway our citizens will sleep peacefully tonight feeling their "threatened democracy" is now safe. For only a show of real strength will keep the forces of European totalitarianism at arm's length. But what is to prevent such incipient forces at home from using conscription to promote their own fascism? The Selective Service Act leaves several doors open to such action...
...Every vote for Browder and Ford will serve as an unequivocal warning to candidates of the major parties that we oppose all steps leading to war and fascism," the pamphlet says...
...Christian Century argued that while interested groups, some predatory, always unite behind a leader, there is no threat of fascism if after two terms the leader automatically goes. The Christian Century attached no blame to President Roosevelt for the events and his leadership that poured enormous political power into his hands-the Roosevelt landslides, the relief measures which willy-nilly became political forces, the social reforms which were "not only legitimate but necessary" -but "if Mr. Roosevelt breaks through the third term barrier, he will break through the only inhibition which our system of government recognizes as a check against...
...cavalierly pretends that we are already saved." And it saw against him such powerful forces working to establish a one-party system that, if they succeed, "the possibility of creating a formidable opposition party will vanish for a long time to come." For the makings of an American fascism by way of a one-party Government, The Christian Century listed: 1) the vast political machines; 2) the Solid South; 3) "the economic blocs grateful for his [the President's] special legislation"; 4) peacetime conscription; 5) emergency "partly inevitable, partly shaped to political ends." Add the doctrine of the indispensable...
...Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious fervor ... as unreasonable, dogmatic, and theoretical as any long established theology...