Thoughts on Fascism

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Thoughts on Fascism

“It will not be enough to stamp out anti-democratic practices in the land of our enemies. The conditions which created Fascism there must not pass unnoticed here.”
Hugo Black – U.S. Supreme Court Justice

“It would be easy for us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the rights, privileges and duties of all other countries and peoples, to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Fascism did.” Ernest Hemingway – Author

“As a matter of fact, it is the fascist-minded men of America who are the real enemies of our institutions. They have solidarity, a common interest in seizing more power and greater riches for themselves and ability and willingness to turn the concentrated wealth of America against the welfare of America. It is these men who, pretending that they would save us from dreadful communism, would superimpose upon America an equally dreaded fascism.”
Harold Ickes – Sec. of Interior under FDR

“Unhappy events abroad have re-taught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Fascism is a political, social and economic form of society wherein by virtue of a merger which has been accomplished between certain powerful financial interests and a military machine, the entire nation is under the dictatorship of this oligarchy. Individuality and freedom are suppressed “in the interests of the state” which happens to be none other than the dictating oligarchy. Since so radical a change in a form of government is not very easily accomplished, the transition to Fascism is, at first, made easier by demagogic political agitation of the kind which is described as “We are all things to all men.” To gain the backing of powerful industrialists…a form of society is offered which will protect their objective; disunity is created by playing political groups against each other, religious groups against each other, social and economic groups against each other. A confused and disunited people can offer no effective resistance to the seizure of power by this newly merged oligarchy.”
U.S. Army – “Classes in Citizenship” WWII

[BridgeTheGap]

1. Sounds like what's happening now

What did we miss?

[Kenergy]

2. Good post...thank you n/t

[Postman]

3. Rightwingers are blind to this fact...

they don't seem to understand that corporations are not liberal and they don't see that corporations have taken over the gov't. Especially the Bush administration..

The media is as liberal as the corporations that own them.