Lore wrote:Strict Communism is the requirement that private property is not allowed. No one owns anything. Everything is owned by the government church. I don't know of any society having been able to adopt this?
fascism
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Pronunciation: /ˈfaʃɪz(ə)m/
Definition of fascism in English:
noun
1. An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
1.1(In general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices.
The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43); the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist.
In the early 1930s, a coalition of America’s wealthiest industrial magnates hatched a scheme to topple the Roosevelt Administration and replace it with a fascist dictatorship.
The conspirators were fuming over the 1932 election victory of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Once in office, the new president pledged a raft of measures to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression,which were known collectively as the New Deal. He was also an advocate for the abandonment of the gold standard, something that horrified many elites. F.D.R.’s critics condemned the president’s policies for placing the country on what they saw as a slippery slope to outright Bolshevism.
In 1933, the conspirators planned to recruit 500,000 military veterans from the First World War through various American Legion branches. They even pledged $3 million to buy weapons for their half-million man army so the troops could capture and hold the American capital. Once the seat of power was theirs, the plotters would install an ultra-nationalist and business-friendly regime modelled after Mussolini’s Italy. (Many conspirators were also admirers of Hitler even before the Nazis came to power, largely because of his ardent anti-communism).[3]
The cabal planned to offer command of their rebel army to a celebrated U.S. Marine general by the name of Smedley Butler. The 52-year-old veteran of the war in France had also fought counter-insurgencies in Latin America and the Philippines and was perhaps the most respected military leader in the country.
Just a year earlier, Butler had publicly voiced support for a march on Washington by Great War veterans who were demanding the government make good on its promises to provide benefits. On the orders of then-president Herbert Hoover, this so-called Bonus Army was eventually broken up by another well-known military leader of the day, General Douglas MacArthur. The Business Plotters felt that Butler’s patriotism along with his popularity among veterans would make him an ideal leader for their putsch.
Little did the conspirators realize, Butler had long-since become a critic of corporate greed, seeing it as an engine that drove many of America’s foreign wars. In fact, in 1935, he committed his thoughts on the matter to a famous book entitled War is a Racket.
In 1933, an American Legion leader involved in the plot approached Butler, during which time he offered him command of the rebel army. The decorated war hero immediately alerted Washington of the plot.
The McCormack-Dickstein committee, which would go onto become the House Committee on Un-American Activities, examined the allegations, declaring that there was some evidence of a scheme by Wall Street elites, anti-communists and fascist sympathizers. Even though the findings were declared by Congress to be “alarmingly true”, no charges were ever laid against anyone involved in the plot.
“The [committee] received evidence showing that certain persons had made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country. There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient,” Congress declared. [4]
KaiserJeep wrote:The ultimate implementation of Fascism is the Environmental Protection Agencies, both Federal and State.
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