By John T. Flynn
ISBN-10: 0914156004
ISBN-13: 9780914156000
As We cross Marching is John T. Flynn's vintage paintings from 1944 on how wartime making plans introduced fascism to the USA. Flynn was once a widespread journalist and the infrequent case of an American public highbrow who resisted the onslaught of either the war and welfare states through the interval within which FDR governed the USA. This learn hyperlinks the household coverage of the hot care for the force for conflict and wartime imperative making plans. Flynn attracts awareness to the sour irony that the USA used to be turning into accurately what we have been combating. His research of fascism is incisive and devastating.
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For imperialism flows as logically from militarism as militarism from spending. Practical Italian politicians perceived that they could not induce their tax^burdened people to support large armies and navies— whatever the real purpose—without persuading them that they stood in need of these costly weapons. They could not do this without providing the people with an adequate arsenal of fears. If the country had no natural enemy to be cultivated, then an enemy had to be invented. There is no answer to the proposition that a nation must be strong enough to repel the ambitions of powerful and greedy neighbors.
No man in Italy would find himself on unfavorable ground as a rule by promising bigger budgets at the cost of bigger public debts. As a rule the statesman riding that vessel would find himself sailing with and not against the stream of public opinion and tolerance. The presence, therefore, of this stream in the consciousness of the people of Italy is one of the most important to be noticed and kept in mind as we search for the roots of fascism in Italy or any other country. But this policy does run into resistance—and resistance in very influential quarters.
His party was joined by recruits from every school of political thought. He found at his side the representatives of every kind of discontent and every organ of national salvation. The oppressed tenants along with the overworked and underpaid craftsmen of the towns crowded around him, beside the most reactionary landowners and employers, to demand, as one commentator said, the honoring of the many contradictory promissory notes he had issued on his way to office. He was supposed to be a man of personal integrity so far as 12 money was concerned.