[lbo-talk] "Freedom" of fascist speech is an absurdity

[Michael Pugliese]

On 2/6/06, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:At no time
in this period were any fascists, KKK or even Nazis I believe, jailed
in the U.S. for their speech.

A Trial On Trial: The Great Sedition Trial Of 1944

    * A Trial On Trial: The Great Sedition Trial Of 1944, by Lawrence
Dennis and Maximilian St. George. Torrance, CA: Institute for
Historical Review, 1984, 503pp, $11.00, Pb, ISBN 0-939484-20-X.

   Nope. Frank Scott must read this rag, ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p123_Rollins.html

   Lawrence Dennis, Fascist intellectual. The Baffler had a great
piece on him about 5 yrs. ago. according to to the author, he was a
frequent guest at intellectual salons in the 30's, other guests being
pro-Communist intellectuals. What debates they must have had. Dennis
wrote, "The Coming American Fascism." Which got respectful reviews in
the left press of the era, pazired in reviews w/ other works like,
"The Decline of American Capitalism, " by L. Corey aka Fraina.

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Michael Pugliese