The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
It should also be evident that exhibitions of the native brand of fascism are not confined to any single section, class or religion.
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
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