Transformation of Fascism in the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Theory by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.

by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.
Writer, Dandelion Salad
imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com
April 19, 2013

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A note on the background of this paper

This paper was presented at the Pacific Northwest Marxist Scholars Conference in Seattle, Washington, on April 11, 1986, under a different title, “Some Aspects of the Developing Dialectic of U. S. Capitalist Democracy and International Imperialism”. It is being reproduced here without any changes, except in the title. The paper was type-written and was scanned and transferred to the MS Word with some difficulty. There was an abstract diagrammatic presentation of the theory in the original paper. However, its scanned copy could not be pasted in the WordPress word processor. So, that has been excluded.

Establishing Dictatorships: Lessons from History by Steven Jonas

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted on truth-out.org/buzzflash
March 11, 2013

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Admiral Miklos Horthy of Hungary is generally acknowledged to have been history’s first fascist dictator (that is an authoritarian ruler who was not royalty). Following the overthrow of a Hungarian Communist government by Romanian royalist forces in 1919, with the acquiescence of his own King he was appointed “Regent” (for the King) in 1920. He held that post until he himself was displaced by the Nazis in 1944.

Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council

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Propaganda Alert!

The White House
For Immediate Release
October 26, 2012

Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance the Federal Government’s use of local partnerships to address homeland security challenges, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Clear and Present Danger: The Corporatist Two Party Duopoly by Thomas Baldwin

by Thomas Baldwin
Guest Writer
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PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS VOICE
October 18, 2012

It Will Totally Destroy our Democratic Republic

Definitions:

Corporatism (or Corporate Fascism)—A term often first attributed to Benito Mussolini of Italy in the early 1900’s defining the complete merger of the corporations with the nation state. Also, often referred to as just Fascism. Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt wrote an article about fascism (“Fascism Anyone?,” Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 27th Installment: Appendix II: The Nature of Fascism and Its Precursors, Dino Louis, 1998

Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Twenty can be found here: The 15% Solution.

by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
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crossposted on TPJmagazine.us
August 4, 2012

This is the twenty-seventh installment of the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Herein you will find Appendix II. This Appendix, purportedly written by the 20^th century political analyst, (the fictional) “Dino Louis” presents a fairly lengthy definition and then discussion of the nature of fascism. It is certainly fully relevant to the United States at present and what we might face in a future governed fully by the Republican Religious Right. This Appendix begins with a Commentary on the Dino Louis text by The 15% Solution’s (fictional) author, Jonathan Westminster.

The Stimulator: Golden Dawn’s ultra-violence

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Jun 13, 2012 by stimulator

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This Week:

1. Greek anarchists in Prague?
2. Golden Dawn’s Dark hour
3. Immigrants invade Athens’ streets

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 24th Installment: Chapter Twenty 2048: Progressive Attack Politics, Part 4

Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Twenty can be found here: The 15% Solution.

by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on TPJmagazine.us
April 22, 2012

This is the twenty-fourth installment of the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Herein you will find “Part 4” of Chapter 20. (This chapter is very long, and so it will be presented in five parts.) From the perspective of the 25th Anniversary of the Restoration of U.S. Constitutional Democracy in 2048, this chapter discusses “what might have been done” to prevent the fall of the old United States into fascism.

How Did We Let this Happen? By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
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liberalpro.blogspot.com
April 12, 2012

Every nation gets the government it deserves. (Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher.)

This is a fact not an opinion. When I first read this quote, I believed the author had it wrong. I thought about nations that had governments forced on them, from outsiders and from their own people. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that the author had it wrong.

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 22nd Installment: Chapter Twenty 2048: The Self-Destructiveness of the Society of the Old U.S., Part 2

Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Nineteen can be found here: The 15% Solution.

by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on TPJmagazine.us
February 22, 2012

This is the twenty-second installment of the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Herein you will find “Part 2” of Chapter 20. (This chapter is very long, and so it will be presented in four parts.) From the perspective of the 25^th Anniversary of the Restoration of U.S. Constitutional Democracy in 2048, this chapter discusses “what might have been done” to prevent the fall of the old United States into fascism. If present readers find that the warnings from that far-off time have relevance for today’s, that is precisely the intent.

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 21st Installment: Chapter Twenty, 2048: What Might Have Been Done, Part 1

Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Nineteen can be found here: The 15% Solution.

by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on TPJmagazine.us
January 22, 2012

This is the twenty-first installment of the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Herein you will find “Part 1” of Chapter 20. (This chapter is very long, and so it will be presented in four parts.) From the perspective of the 25^th Anniversary of the Restoration of U.S. Constitutional Democracy in 2048, this chapter discusses “what might have been done” to prevent the fall of the old United States into fascism. If present readers find that the warnings from that far-off time have relevance for today’s, that is precisely the intent. For it was the Republicans of the 1990s and what they told us back then they would do if they ever got full power (e.g., see “Gingrich” and “Armey” on p. 3), with the complicity/acquiescence/meek “opposition” of the “center-right” Democratic Party of the time, that got the nation to where it eventually got to.

Sleepwalking into fascism By William Bowles

by William Bowles
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williambowles.info
January 3, 2012

“[W]hen dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era – force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary to deal with those who still live in the nineteenth century world of every state for itself. Among ourselves, we keep the law but when we are operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle.” — The new liberal imperialism by Robert Cooper (Cooper by the way was a former civil service adviser to Tony Blair)[1]

Super Congress = Fascism by The Other Katherine Harris + Kill the Budget Bill + Sanders: Immoral, Grotesque, Unfair

by The Other Katherine Harris
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Glitzqueen
August 1, 2011

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No “Super Congress” should be acceptable to anyone who claims to be a Democrat.  This is fascism on a plate!  It’s bad enough we’ve got five kinglets running amok on the Supreme Court.

My son and I, life-long Democrats who always voted in the past, will never vote again for any politician who votes for a deal that cuts Social Security, Medicare and/or Medicaid, or sets up a band of tyrants to force the hand of our elected representatives. 

Fascism Today: Corporate Tax Escapees and You by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
July 11, 2011

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The all-consuming Washington, D.C. wrangling over debts and deficits, spending and taxing is excluding a large reality of how these financial problems can sensibly and fairly be addressed. These blinders in Congress and the White House come from fact-starved ideologies–mostly from the Republicans–and fear-fed meekness–mostly from the Democrats. Both are furiously dialing for commercial campaign cash.

Thomas Ferguson: Corporatism (2010) + Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics

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mr1001nights on Jan 23, 2010

Supreme Court OKs unlimited corporate spending on elections http://www.msnbc.msn.com
For more info on the investment theory read http://www.amazon.com or watch “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics” [see below]

Compromising Morality… America’s Shame! by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio
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June 29, 2011

Let us imagine for a moment that you live in a country that has tremendous poverty combined with a great polarity between ‘haves and have nots ‘. In this country there are no laws to protect girls from being sold for money by their parents. Thus, poor parents decide to sell their daughters, even as young as 11 or 12, to be made into prostitutes or concubines.