Capitalist support for fascism....

Paul Henry Rosenberg rad at gte.net
Fri Feb 12 19:23:27 PST 1999


Alex wrote:


> I just saw a special on the History Channel (hey, I was *really* bored)
> about a plot by business leaders to use a charismatic veteran to lead a
> fascist coup against FDR. Pretty harrowing stuff.

That would be Smedley Butler.

Interesting that they'd have that on the Histor Channel. Something to look forward to when I get cable, beyond the Sci-Fi channel & "Law & Order" reruns.


> I was wondering if anyone could provide me with some solid, in-depth
> books on big business support for fascism and Nazism, besides Guerin's
> Fascism and Big Business (which isn't very good at all) or Higam's
> Trading With The Enemy. I don't know how many times I've heard cretinous
> history teachers say "Remember, Hitler was a member of the National
> *Socialist* party..." I'm looking for something to refute the lazy,
> facile claim that Hitler was a socialist, once and for all.

*Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933*, by James E. Pool

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