Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most of the non-Hersant papers in Paris favor her, and she has been waging a vigorous shoestring campaign with personal letters to voters. Despite Hersant's superior financial and propaganda assets, late polls show D'Harcourt running slightly ahead of Hersant. Many French journalists still hope that after the elections they too will be able to say, it can't happen here...
...Front's links to its Nazi predecessor are being clearly drawn through Britain's current political turbulence. The economic climate fostering the rise of contemporary fascism is similar to the worsening economy of Germany in the late '20s. The racist and nationalist propaganda of the Front recall all too readily Hitler's anti-semitism, his genocide of the 'inferior' Slavic population, and his plans for a Greater Germany. The Front's plans for the state control of capitalist industry are cruelly reminiscent of the German state machine which provided concentration camps of cheap labor to a regulated German industry...
...explanation for the Front's ongoing surge at the polls is twofold. Most immediately, the high profile it has assumed through its extreme and violent tactics has focused attention on itself. The bloody marches it has organized through non-white districts and its extreme racist propaganda have kept the Front on the front pages of Britain's daily newspapers...
...Front's support grows, Britain's established politicians, labor leaders and churchmen are growing increasingly alarmed. They have begun to organize counter-demonstrations and counter-propaganda efforts linking the National Front with Nazism. As they do so, racial violence intensifies, and the British economy continues to stagger...
...best, their counter-propaganda efforts will discredit and slow down the rise of the Front. But the fundamental problem of an economic failure and its disastrous human consequences will remain. The reversal of this economic failure, and of its dehumanizing consequences remains the real problem for Britain. Ultimately, it will only be resolved through the supersession of the cyclical capitalist economy, which recurrently exposes society to economic breakdown, and concurrently exposes it to the fascist threat...