Friendly Fascism by Miller, Mark Crispin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Dedication Contents Series Introduction Introduction Preface, 1985 Introduction: A Patriotic Warning ONE: The Roots of Friendly Fascism

1. The Rise and Fall of Classic Fascism

Italy, Germany, Japan Breeding Grounds of Fascism The Axis Anti-Fascist Failures Fascist Exploits Fascist Ideologies Destruction of the Axis Indestructible Myths

2. The Takeoff Toward a New Corporate Society

The Sun Never Sets on America’s “Free World” The Golden International Big Welfare for Big Business More Rational Corporate Planning Technology: Starting, Stopping, Suppressing

3. The Mysterious Establishment

The Castles of Power The Ultra-Rich The Corporate Overseers The Chief Executive Network Executive Managers Junior and Contingent Members Conflicts Among the Few Purges and Conversions Purifying Ideologies

4. The Side Effects of Success

An Abundance of Frustrations Falling Apart: Work, Community, Family Loneliness and Alienation Crime: The Dirty Secrets The Erosion of Authority

5. The Challenge of a Shrinking Capitalist World

New Losses to Communism Creeping Socialism Third World Demands Detente: A Cooler Cold War Instability at the Top

6. Old Crises in New Forms

Untamed Recession The Hidden Unemployed The New Inflation: Hyena’s Delight The Dynamite of Class Conflict Limited War Unlimited Overkill

TWO: The Specter of Friendly Fascism

7. The Unfolding Logic

Making the Most of Crises Consolidating Power The Cat Feet of Tyranny Many Paths

8. Trilateral Empire or Fortress America?

American Retrenchment A “True Empire” Alternative Outcomes

9. The Friendly Fascist Establishment

From Floundering Establishment to Super-America, Inc. A Righteous Presidency Remolding Militarism The Restructuring of the Radical Right New Ideologies of Central Power Triplespeak

10. Friendly Fascist Economics

More Stagflation More Money Moving Upward An Abundance of Shortages More Waste and Pollution More Nuclear Poison More Junk and Disservices

11. Subverting Democratic Machinery

Integrating Separate Branches Friendly Fascist Federalism Community Carnivals Contrapuntal Party Harmony Union-Busting and the Slow Meltdown The Lessons of the Watergate Conspiracy Unhinging an Anti-Establishment White House Coups D’Etat American-Style

12. Managing Information and Minds

Information as the March The Symbolic Environment Image as the Reality Narrowing the Scope of Controversy Manufacturing Opinion by Polling The Electronic Throne Monitoring as the Message Womb-to-Tomb Dossiers Economic and Social Vindicators Educational Authoritarianism Custodial Functions

13. Incentives for System Acceptance

Extended Professionalism Job, Prometheus, Faust For Consumers: Kidnapper Candy Servitude’s Services Conditional Benefactions Rationed Payoffs The Effulgent Aura

14. The Ladder of Terror

The Rungs of Violence Precision Purging Forceful Confrontation Personal Injury Covert Action Conflict Among the “Slobs” A Violence-Vigilante Culture

15. Sex, Drugs, Madness, Cults

Sex: Through Liberation to Repression Drugs: Religion of Some People Madness: Escape from Madness Cults: Belonging through Submission

16. The Adaptive Hydra

Frying Pan-Fire Conflicts Multilevel Co-optation Creative Counterresistance Innovative Apathetics

17. The Myths of Determinism

Impossibility: It Couldn’t Happen Inevitability: It Will Happen Irreversibility: Eternal Servitude or Holocaust

THREE: True Democracy

18. It Hasn’t Happened Yet

The USA Today vs. Friendly Fascism, USA Why It Has Not Yet Happened

19. The Long-Term Logic of Democracy

The Democratic Mystique Democratic Struggles

20. The Democratic Logic in Action

A Good Neighbor in a New World Order Democratizing the Establishment Balancing the Economy Democratizing the Social Base Information for Human Liberation Releasing Humanistic Values Truth and Rationality

21. What Can You Do?

Yes, You … Anyone Anywhere, Really? High Aspirations, Realistic Expectations My Country, Right and Wrong

Notes Index Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Page

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