Comments on: New Deal and Fascism http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Fowler http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html/comment-page-1#comment-3799 Tim Fowler Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:59:33 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html#comment-3799 <p>I agree that the economic structure was somewhat similar to fascism. OTOH I would not call FDR fascist. He was elected, and he didn't try to stop future elections (no auto-coup for him), he also didn't commit the level of abuse that real fascists are prone to do, and I don't think he had the same sort of hyper-nationalism. Fascism is not just "nationalist corporate socialism", it includes that but having that doesn't mean you have a fascist state if you have a relatively free democracy.</p> I agree that the economic structure was somewhat similar to fascism. OTOH I would not call FDR fascist. He was elected, and he didn’t try to stop future elections (no auto-coup for him), he also didn’t commit the level of abuse that real fascists are prone to do, and I don’t think he had the same sort of hyper-nationalism. Fascism is not just “nationalist corporate socialism”, it includes that but having that doesn’t mean you have a fascist state if you have a relatively free democracy.

]]> By: triticale http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html/comment-page-1#comment-3798 triticale Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:51:09 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html#comment-3798 <p>Could it be that FDR's confiscatory taxation of corporate capital reserves in 1935 was in fact intended to have the effect which it did, of blunting an incipient recovery?</p> Could it be that FDR’s confiscatory taxation of corporate capital reserves in 1935 was in fact intended to have the effect which it did, of blunting an incipient recovery?

]]> By: MesaEconoGuy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html/comment-page-1#comment-3797 MesaEconoGuy Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:24:31 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/09/new_deal_and_fa.html#comment-3797 <p>Cato scholar Jim Powell also brings this obvious parallel up in his book “FDR’s Folly.”</p> <p>http://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Folly-Roosevelt-Prolonged-Depression/dp/140005477X/sr=8-1/qid=1158981744/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1168560-8547908?ie=UTF8&s=books</p> <p>Much of the premise and many guidelines of FDR’s programs were straight out of Mario Palmieri’s “The Philosophy of Fascism (1936)” [quoted in FDR’s Folly].</p> Cato scholar Jim Powell also brings this obvious parallel up in his book “FDR’s Folly.”

http://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Folly-Roosevelt-Prolonged-Depression/dp/140005477X/sr=8-1/qid=1158981744/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1168560-8547908?ie=UTF8&s=books

Much of the premise and many guidelines of FDR’s programs were straight out of Mario Palmieri’s “The Philosophy of Fascism (1936)” [quoted in FDR’s Folly].

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