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abundance: spectacle of
accumulation: capital; concentration; impact on workers; purchasing power aged; requirements of; sole purpose. Also see Capitalism; Corey; Marx; Roosevelt
advertising; as a fascist process; attitude toward consumer; Chase and Sanborn Coffee; Cream of Wheat Corporation; duplicitous; Ladies Home Journal; spectacle; sustaining the economy. See also Hallgren, Mauritz
Allen, Frederick Lewis; Harper’s; on marketing
African-Americans: Great Migration. See racism
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), See also Mitchell, Broadus
America: importers of culture. See United States
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). See Harry F. Ward
American fascism; American version of Mussolini’s March on Rome; Business destroying democracy; call for economic and political dictatorship; defined by President Roosevelt; demagogues plus Big Business; development; did not require a third party; disguised as anti-fascism; fascist threat; germ of, in the beacon of democracy; product of capitalist modernization; in the name of Democracy; why no history of it?. See also Black Legion; Corey; fascist processes; Haider; Khaki Shirts; K.K.K.; liberal; recession; Sokolsky, George; Swing, R. G.; Tugwell, Rexford; Ward, Harry F.
American Federation of Labor (AFL); Samuel Gompers
American individualism
American Legion
American Liberty League (1934); Carpenter, R. R. M.; coup plot; Ku Klux Klan; Murphy, Grayson M. P.
American Progress (newspaper). See Huey Long
anti-trust laws: easier for monopolies to organize
assembly-line. See also Ford
automobiles; pillar of growth;. See also Corey; Ford
aviation: monopoly
Baran, Paul; fascism
Barton, Bruce; The Man Nobody Knows
Beals, Carlton: described Huey Long’s rule; Long taps into the fears of the middle class
Bernays, Edward; father of public relations. See also propaganda; public relations
Berle, Adolf A. and Means, Gardiner C., The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932)
Bernstein, Irving: only the privileged benefit
Bill of Rights
Bingham, Alfred: actions required; anti-communist; call for third party; Cooperative Commonwealth; on Huey Long; Insurgent America (1935); New Deal prepared the way for fascism; “Plan of Transition”
Black Legion: Effinger, Virgil F.; Shephard, William Jacob; popular in the West
Blair, John
Bonus Army; Douglas MacArthur
Boom (1922-1929); abundance; Boomtown ballyhoo; class struggle; complacency; contradiction between middle class and Big Business; displacement of labor; disposable income; gap of inequality widened; mantra of prosperity; mechanism of repression; not shared by majority; paupers of Boomtown; persuasion and manipulation; political quiescence; progress euphoria; rapid rise of goods; residential construction; system of power; systemic contradictions; unprecedented prosperity. See also Carver, Thomas Nixon; Corey; Depression; Hallgren, Mauritz; middle class; Soule, George
Boston College: History Department
Brady, Robert A.; American fascism similar to European fascism; Business as a System of Power (1943); ‘business becoming political; business system itself a totalizing power; business systems of six nations; business systems were intrinsically fascist; civil war between right and left; cultural hegemony; German fascism parallel to American; global fascism; militarism; New Deal; ordeal of the Great Depression; singled out the National Association of Manufacturers; The Structure and Spirit of German Fascism (1937); transition from capitalism to fascism
Braverman, Harry
Britain; competition with U. S.; gold standard departure; investment
Bryan, William Jennings
Business; alliance with government, state power; boom-and-bust; call for dictatorship; compass for all Americans; control over both political parties; control over markets; desire for a balanced budget; dominant force; driving force of fascism; fascist ideology; fountainhead of American fascism; gap between rich and poor; indifference; influential; installment plan; machinery; mass production; maximum profits at the expense of labor; political arm; politicians and businessmen; productivity; profits; postwar surge; resources ubiquitous; salaries and dividends; stock market; stronger than government itself, says Roosevelt; totalitarian. See also Boom; Brady, Robert A.; Carver, Thomas Nelson; Guerin; Huey Long; Palmer Raids; Seldes
Butler, Smedley Darlington: Marine Corps General who put down conspiracy
Calverton, V. F.: on fascism; workers starving.
Capital: hold of
Capitalism: accumulation; adjacency to warfare; advertising; bank branches overseas; bank failings; bound to fascism; boom/bust cycles; built on slavery and wage labor; capital-labor relationship; centralization; class rule; coercive economic and political system; competition; concentration and centralization; consumerism credit; contradictions; corporations dominate over all; crisis; dictatorship required to manage increasing capital concentration; diminishment; dollar dominates; economic collapse; exploitation; exports; fascism inherent; fascism is the need of the state’s power to promulgate; germ of fascism; good vs. bad; holding companies; increasing reliance on technology; industrial efficiency; industrial stage; inequality; investment in undeveloped areas; monopolization stifles economy’s production; New York replaces London; overproduction; pressure to purchase; proclaiming democracy, curtailing democracy; production; promise of universal prosperity; propaganda; public relations; recession of 1921; requires deficit spending; seeds of fascism; social and political life controlled; state monopoly capitalism; technological innovation; totalizing force; tragic hallmark; transition to imperialism; Wall Street crash (1929); wealth and poverty simultaneously. See also Brady, Robert A.; Marx; modernization; public relations; Roosevelt; U. S.
cartels. See Business
Carver, Thomas Nixon; capitalism natural; capitalist utopia idea; compared to Bernays; economic revolution doesn’t materialize; Present Economic Revolution in the United States (1925); touting economic achievements
Chamber of Commerce; praise for Mussolini; united front
Chaplin, Charlie
Chase, Stuart: liberal economy. See also Roosevelt
Civil War
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cold War: hostility toward Marxism
Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA); advantages; warnings of fascism. See also Scottsboro Case; Wilson, Edmund
Communists
consumer society and consumerism. See also advertising; media
consumption
Coolidge, Calvin; expansion abroad; New Capitalism; puritanical; saintly and anointed; Silent Cal. See also advertising; Fay, Charles Norman
Corey, Lewis; American fascism; automobiles unsold; biography of Corey, by Paul Buhle; capital accumulation; causes analyzed; construction trades; contradictions leading to decline and decay; cyclical revival; The Decline of American Capitalism; excess capacity; financial oligarchy;industry merged to the state; Marxist economist; mechanization; New Deal preparatory for fascism; not better known; planned limitation of output; role of the middle class; similarity to Robert A. Brady; speculative economic climate; wages stalled; workers and wages. See also Depression; Marx
Coughlin, Charles; anti-Hoover; anti-Semitism; backed by William Randolph Hearst; Father Coughlin; fostered class discrimination; grounded in Catholic teaching; insight of Victor C. Ferkiss degeneration of native American radicalism into fascism; radio ministry; and Roosevelt. See also K.K.K.
Credit: easy access
Cuba
cultural divisions
deficit spending. See Roosevelt
Dennis, Lawrence
Depression (1930s); business concentration speeds up; cause; contradictions within; Lewis Corey; crisis (1929); New Era prophets wrong; opposite of the Boom; revolutionary moment; suffering. See also Brady, Robert A.; Capitalism; Corey; Kindleburger, Charles; Wall Street Crash
Dewey, John: agenda; enlightened democratic government; favored privileged plutocracy; hostile toward socialist alternatives
Dimitroff, Georgi; defines fgascism; fascism the power of finance capitalism itself; General Secretary of the Communist International
Duhamel, George: America the Menace; cultural critic
DuPont
Dutt, R. Palme: saw fascism developing in U. S.
Eccles, Marriner: Chairman, Federal Reserve
electrification: pillar of growth. See also Leuchtenburg
Emergency Quota Act (1921)
Engels, Frederick; investigator of industrial capitalism
Evans, Hiram Wesley, Imperial Wizard
executive power: political dictatorship
farmers; bank foreclosings; farm crisis
Fascism: class character; defined by Hallgren; historiography; lost discourse; power sof finance capital itself; responsibility for; See also advertising; capitalism; Haider; Hitler; propaganda; public relations; Mussolini; United States
fascist processes; capitalist accumulation; capitalist modernization; citizenship undermined; dictatorial rule of capital; embryonic in U. S.; fascism indicators; harbingers of American fascism; organizing for war; terrorist and non-terrorist; widening gap between wealth and poverty. Also see American fascism; Fay, Charles Norman; Raushenbush, Stephen
fashion: obsession with
Fay, Charles Norman; appointing vs. voting; Business in Poitics; justifying elites; money meritocracy; principle of Least Government; profit-and-loss; “True Americanism”. See also Bernays
Federal Reserve. See Roosevelt
Ferkiss, Victor: examined Long’s career against the backdrop of capitalist crisis
Filene’s (Boston)
finance capital
Ford, Henry; expansion overseas; Fordism. See automobiles
Fordney-McCumer Tariff (1922): negates credit
France
Freud, Sigmund
Gary, Elbert H.
General Electric Company; expansion overseas
General Foods Corporation: first diversified food giant
General Motors; expansion overseas
Germany; described as a “non-state”; Freikorps; Hitler’s rise to power; loans from U. S.; trigger for fascism; under Hitler. See also Brady, Robert A.
Gleischaltung. See Trump
Gold Reserve Act (January, 1934)
Goldfrank, Walter
Guerin, Daniel, Fascism and Big Business
Hacker, Louis; on imperialism; observer of Pax Americana
Haider, Carmen; banks behind the scenes; contradictions between capital and labor; defines fascism
Hallgren, Mauritz; advertising; middle-class plight; monopolists; Seeds of Revolt (1933); unemployment; working class movement could prevent fascism
Hansen, Alvin, Full Recovery or Stagnation? (1038). See Keynes
Harding, Warren Gamaliel; America First; enhanced powers of the presidency; imperialist henchmen; Marion, Ohio; middle-class backslapper; normalcy; Old Guard isolationists; political agenda; protectionism; trickle-down economics; unique dynamic of masquerade
Harper’s Magazine; New Deal sabotage. See also New Deal
Harvey, David
Hitler, Adolf; compared to President Trump; dictatorship; Enabling Act; National Socialism; not required for fascism in America; regime. See also Germany; National Socialism
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoover, Herbert; American values; anger at; Commerce Secretary; Depression, explanation for; failure; fascist turn; Federal Farm Board; Great Engineer; high tariffs; mission accomplished; National Credit Corporation; raises taxes; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). See also Bonus Army
Hopkins, Harry: fascist solution; supports Ickes insight
Horkheimer, Max
Hughes, Charles; Central America invasions
Ickes, Harold: fascist threat of Big Business; Republican; Secretary of Interior; spurs Roosevelt; supported by Harry Hopkins; supported New Deal
immigration and immigrants; dangerous; restrictions. See also Emergency Quota Act; National Origins Act
imperialism
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
installment buying
International Harvester Company; expansion overseas
investment. See United States
Iran-Contra: role of the CIA. See also Roberto, Michael Joseph
Italy; American relations with fascist Italy
Japan: militarism; Pearl Harbor
Jesus
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Josephson, Matthew
Katznelson, Ira; New Deal
Kennedy, David. See also New Deal
Keynes, John Maynard; The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, (1936), won over Alvin Hansen
Khaki Shirts: manocracy
Kindleberger, Charles: analysis of The Great Depression; liquidity crisis
Kiwanis
Klaverns. See Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan (KKK); enemies; fascistic; Father Coughlin; Gate City Manufacturing (Atlanta); growth; middle class membership; money-making machine; petty bourgeois class consciousness; Protestant fundamentalism; racist. See also American Liberty League; Hiram Wesley Evans
labor: displacement; exploitation. See Marx; Roosevelt; Wagner Act
labor unrest; DuPont and General Motors; Ford Motor Company; militancy; suppressed; workers replaced by machines; tamed
Lamont, Thomas W.: support from Morgan Bank for Mussolini
Lasswell, Harold
Lenin, Vladimir
Leonard, Jonathan Norton; Chicago; smugness; Three Years Down
Leuchtenburg, Walter: Brain Trust; Cold War historian; electrical power
Lewis, Sinclair: his protagonist, George F. Babbitt; It Can’t Happen Here, (1935)
liberal: anti-communist to the core; fueling American fascism. See Matthews & Shallcross
Liberalism: crossroads; defense of the capitalist system; folklore; in the making of American fascism; myth of American exceptionalism; reformation. See United States; Warren, Frank
liberals. See Also John Dewey; Alfred Bingham
Lindbergh, Charles
Lions Clubs
Lippman, Walter; powerful political economist
living wage
Long, Huey; accused others of fascism; assassinated; attacks the New Deal; Beals sees powers of capitalist modernization; biographical sketch; breakdown of populism into fascism; Broun, “Long is just a fascist”; “deduct box”; dictator; emperor of Louisiana; exploited African-Americans; facilitator of capitalist modernization; liberal capitalist failure; published his own newspaper; roots in the petty bourgeoisie; Standard Oil Co. duplicitous relationship; thinking like a capitalist; threatening. See also Beals, Carlton; Bingham, Alfred
Louisiana: backward state; monopoly capitalist and feudal enterprise. See also Huey Long
lynchings
McCarthy, Senator Jospeh: anti-communist hysteria
McElvaine, Robert: did everyone become rich?; increased federal spending. See also Hoover
Macdonald, Dwight
MacLean, Nancy; class analysis
Magil, A. B.; and Harry Stevens, The Peril of Fascism; American fascism; labor unrest; political economy; similarity to Robert. A. Brady
Marchand, Roland; Democracy of Goods
Marcuse, Herbert, One Dimensional Man
marketing; consciousness; salesmen. See also advertising
Marx, Karl: accumulation; agricultural labor; Capital (1867); capitalism; capitalist accumulation; capitalists and workers; concept of totality; The Communist Manifesto; constant and variable capital; contradiction of poverty and plenty; critic of Proudhon; dialectics; industrial formation; industrial capitalism; labor subject to capital; lag in acquired wealth; laws of motion; media; methodology; organic composition; ownership production; pauperism; The Poverty of Philosophy; production expansion; surplus-value; worker labor-power. See also Capitalism; Lewis Corey; David Harvey; Wilson, Edmund
mass production. See also Bernays
Matthews, J. B. & Shallcross, R. E.: liberal and fascist; monopoly finance capitalism connected with political liberalism. See Harper’s Magazine
Mayer, Arno. See also Nancy MacLean
mechanization. See also Capitalism
media: supported Big Business
Mellon, Andrew; laissez-faire; prosperity for all; tax cuts; used the Treasury Department
middle class reaction; and the Klan; characteristics; imperfectly formed wave of reaction; quiescence. See also Haider, Carmen; Hallgren, Mauritz; Wilson, Edmund
Migone, Gian Giacomo; Mussolini
Military Appropriations Act (1916)
Miller, Robert Moats
Minton, Bruce & Stuart, John: capitalism not functioning; The Fat Years and the Lean; militarism portrayed
Mitchell, Broadus: failure of AAA administrators; outspoken socialist
modernization: contradictions; industrial and financial
monopoly
Morgan, J. P.
Morgenthau, Henry: Treasury Secretary
Mussolini, Benito; biographical details; black shirts; congratulated by American businessmen; feared losing American capital; inspires American businessmen; March on Rome (1922); Myerson, Gregory; Partito Nazionale Fascista; popularity in the U. S.; praised by Andrew Mellon; rise to power, 1922; support from American Bankers Association; support from U. S. See also Italy; Will Rogers
Myerson, Gregory: crisis of the American Empire
Nation, The. See also Hallgren, Mauritz
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM); organized lobbies; united front. See also Brady, Robert A.
National Economic Committee (TNEC): concentration and centralization of wealth
National Labor Relations Act. See Wagner Act
National Labor Relations Board
National Origins Act (1924)
National Recovery Act (NRA): colossal failure; designed for Big Business. See also Roosevelt
National Socialism
Neumann, Franz, Behemoth
New Deal; affinity with Italian fascism; all things to all men; alliance of businessmen and politicians; attempt to bridge the capital/labor divide; comparison to Hoover budget; currency manipulation; didn’t halt the upward distribution of national wealth; failed to end the crisis; fascist character; fascist indication; fascist tendencies; fundamental contradictions; kept the middle class loyal to Roosevelt; plausible transition toward fascism; pluses and minuses; profitable; second New Deal (1935); service of capital. See also Bingham, Alfred; Brady, Robert A.; Long, Huey; state capitalism; Raushenbush; Swing, R. G.
New Era; prophets of capitalistic progress; unemployment high. See also Capitalism; Hallgren, Mauritz; propaganda
New York Stock Exchange: suspended trading
Nicaraguan Revolution
oil
Palmer, A. Mitchell;
Palmer Raids
Panama Canal
patriarchy
Pax Americana; empire rises; Reagan-Bush to Trump. See also Hacker, Louis
Pelley, William Dudley: big small-fry fascist. See also Silver Shirts
Pettigrew, Richard Franklin, Imperial Washington; neglected unfairly
Philippines
plutocracy
Poverty: and plenty
Pragmatism
productivity
Prohibition
propaganda; democracy in the marketplace; manipulation; new propagandists; political success; success in WWI. See also Bernays; Capitalism
Prothro, James Warren
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. See also Marx
public relations; Link, Henry C.; experts in; partnership with business
Puerto Rico
racism
radicalism
radio
Raushenbush, Stephen, The March of Fascism (1939); New Deal. See also U. S.
recession (of 1937-1938); causes; developing American Fascism; unemployment; Wendell Willkie nominated, 1940
Red Scare
Republican Party; explained by Carmen Haider; laissez-faire; and the middle class; political imprimatur; tax cuts; Wall Street alliance
residential construction. See Boom
Roberto, Michael Joseph; Carolina Peacemaker; Communist Workers Party; Greensboro News & Record; Iran-Contra. See also Boston College; Myerson, Gregory
Rochester, Anna
Rogers, Will: favored Mussolini
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; attitude toward middle class; backed corporations; bad citizenship traced to capitalists; Big Business the main fascist threat; cajoling capitalists; capitalist accumulation; capitalism essentially good; comparison to Italy and Germany (fascism); contribution of Stuart Chase; Emergency Banking Act; ends banking crisis; failures of Business; fascism, thoughts on; fear of higher wages; Federal Reserve; first hundred days; historians’ immediate response; investigates the power of monopolies; motives unknown; national bank holiday; National Economic Committee (TNEC); National Recovery Administration (NRA); organized labor; permanent deficit spending; policies heightened class conflict; presidency; promise; prop up Big Business; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; reelection landslide (1936); restore deficit spending; second New Deal (1935); sought to reverse monopolization; speechwriters; strengthened capital; warning that the country could go fascist. See also Brady, Robert A.; Federal Reserve; New Deal
Rotary Club
Russian Revolution
savings: lost; See also Thomas Nelson Carver
Schlesinger, Arthur; on Huey Long
Scottsboro Case
Sedition Act (1918)
segregation
Seldes, Gilbert: Big Business harbinger of fascism; communist party; Facts and Fascism (1943); fascism would differ in the U. S.; Silver Shirts; small-fry fascist groups; The Years of the Locust (1933)
Selective Service Administration
silver shirts )U.S.): emulated Mussolini’s black shirts and Hitler’s brown shirts
small-fry fascisti: all had roots in the petty bourgeoisie
social security; Social Security Act (1935)
Socialism
Sokolsky, George: America’s drift toward fascism; executive emphasis instead of legislative; lead toward fascism; witnessed the need for totalitarian form of government
Soule, George: final spurt
Soviet Union
Spain
spectacle of prosperity. See also advertising
speculation
state capitalism; examined; inflation; monopoly capitalism; profits rise; results in cheaper labor
steel industries
Stevens, Henry
Stolberg, Benjamin & Vinton, Warren Jay; The Economic Consequences of the New Deal (1935); middle class muddled; opportunistic New Deal; oppressive emphasis on scarcity; Roosevelt avoids socialist planning; saving the capitalist system; synthesis of errors. See also New Deal
strikes. See labor unrest
surplus-value. See Marx
Sweezy, Paul
Swing, Raymond Gram: Forerunners of American Fascism; New Deal; profiles of Father Coughlin, Huey Long, William Randolph Hearst; sacrifice of democracy; views
telephone industry
trade unionism
Transcontinental Railroad
Trump, Donald J.; Gleichschaltung
trusts
Tugwell, Rexford: rejected class struggle
unemployment; mass unemployment. See also Corey, Lewis; Hallgren, Mauritz
unemployment insurance
Union Party: William Lemke
United Fruit Company: expansion overseas
United States: American Behemoth; Americanism; basis of American industry; bulwark against Communism; capital investment; Civil War; class struggle transformed; creditor nation of the world; cover-up of fascism explained; electricity replaces steam; executive vs. legislative; foreign trade gains; foreign import barriers; imperialism emerges; inflation; Liberalism; manager of business interests; monopoly finance capitalism; myth of American exceptionalism; Pax Americana; poverty; preeminent leader; protectionism; purchasing power deterioration; society changes; The State as hired policeman; support for Mussolini; Transition to fascism; U. S. Steel Corporation; United States v. Winrod; world capitalist system; world power; world’s banker. See also business; Capitalism; Dutt; fascist processes; Germany; Mussolini; Pax Americana; Seldes; unemployment
U. S. Steel Corporation; efficiency. See also Charles Norman Fay; steel industries
united front
urbanization
Veblen, Thorsten
wages. See also Marx
Wagner Act
Wall Street Crash (1929); general crisis of U.S. capitalism; losers; merger movement; overproduction and saturation; political consequences. See also Capitalism
Wall Street Journal: See Corey
War Industries Board (1917)
Ward, Harry F.: ACLU chairman; anti-fascist, socialist Christian; biographer, David Nelson Duke; democracy’s impossible promise
Warren, Frank A.: Liberals and Communism (1966)
Welfare State
White, William Allen
white supremacy
Wilson, Edmund: American Jitters (1933); Communist Party incapability; on Marx; Senate candidacy of Dwight Morrow
Wilson, Woodrow; on the middle class; postwar vision. See also Military Appropriations Act
Winrod, Gerald B.: big small-fry fascist
working class. See business
World War I; American Expeditionary Force