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Was Franklin Roosevelt a Fascist, as an earlier Progressive Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, was?
Well....the paragon of Fascism, Mussolini, thought so, and had no beef with him...
7. ".... Mussolini praised the New Deal as “boldly . . . interventionist in the field of economics,” and Roosevelt complimented Mussolini for his “honest purpose of restoring Italy” and acknowledged that he kept “in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.” Also, Hugh Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, was known to carry a copy of Raffaello Viglione’s pro-Mussolini book,The Corporate State,with him, presented a copy to Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, and, on retirement, paid tribute to the Italian dictator."
Fascism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty
And Hitler claimed kinship a well:
8. Adolf Hitler, whose National Socialist (Nazi) Party adapted fascism to Germany beginning in 1933, said: 'The state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.' Fascism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty (Barkai 1990, pp. 26–27)
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in FDR's book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”
9. "Earl Browder, former head of the American Communist Party, maintains in his pamphlet, Keynes, Foster and Marx, that Keynesism, which he defines as state capitalism, is the road to communism." https://mises.org/sites/default/files/The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower_3.pdf
a. "Roosevelt had a close relationship with Earl Browder, head of the CPUSA (Communist Party, USA). Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt interested themselves in the case of Mrs. Browder, who was in this country illegally and was facing deportation to her native Russia. Finally, in 1941, an order for Mrs. Browder's deportation was vacated..."
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution,".p.53
Roosevelt...loved by Mussolini, Hitler, Earl Browder (communist)....
....are you getting that overdue education about Leftists and Leftism???
Hmm....in this post alone: FDR, Mussolini, Hitler, and Earl Browder.....
Birds of a feather.....and Leftists all.
Well....the paragon of Fascism, Mussolini, thought so, and had no beef with him...
7. ".... Mussolini praised the New Deal as “boldly . . . interventionist in the field of economics,” and Roosevelt complimented Mussolini for his “honest purpose of restoring Italy” and acknowledged that he kept “in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.” Also, Hugh Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, was known to carry a copy of Raffaello Viglione’s pro-Mussolini book,The Corporate State,with him, presented a copy to Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, and, on retirement, paid tribute to the Italian dictator."
Fascism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty
And Hitler claimed kinship a well:
8. Adolf Hitler, whose National Socialist (Nazi) Party adapted fascism to Germany beginning in 1933, said: 'The state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.' Fascism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty (Barkai 1990, pp. 26–27)
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in FDR's book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”
9. "Earl Browder, former head of the American Communist Party, maintains in his pamphlet, Keynes, Foster and Marx, that Keynesism, which he defines as state capitalism, is the road to communism." https://mises.org/sites/default/files/The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower_3.pdf
a. "Roosevelt had a close relationship with Earl Browder, head of the CPUSA (Communist Party, USA). Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt interested themselves in the case of Mrs. Browder, who was in this country illegally and was facing deportation to her native Russia. Finally, in 1941, an order for Mrs. Browder's deportation was vacated..."
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution,".p.53
Roosevelt...loved by Mussolini, Hitler, Earl Browder (communist)....
....are you getting that overdue education about Leftists and Leftism???
Hmm....in this post alone: FDR, Mussolini, Hitler, and Earl Browder.....
Birds of a feather.....and Leftists all.
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