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Rise of Fascism: Amerika 2009This forum post is dated 07/05/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Maine - Socialist Party USA
| Rise of Fascism: Amerika 2009 AmericanNoteBook: "The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impovershing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us." - Abraham Lincoln Feb. 15, 1848 "Fascism is an example of oligarchy." Benito Mussolini- from The Big Book of Fascism; defined fascism as being a right-wing collectivistic ideology in opposition to socialism, liberalism, democracy and individualism. Franklin D. Roosevelt in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism: "The first truth is that 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 its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and social interests subordinate to the interests of the state or party. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural <b>...</b> |
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