How is this possible? Leftists wish to reconstruct society along socialistic lines fascists glorify the nation and militarism. But he has the press controlled so that they cannot scream lies at him daily" (p. Mussolini certainly has the same people opposed to him as FDR has. Wells in a speech at Oxford in 1932 called for a "Liberal Fascism" and Rexford Tugwell, a leading member of Roosevelt's Brain Trust, said in 1934, "I find Italy doing many of the things which seem to me necessary…. (Here Goldberg follows the important work of John Patrick Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America.) H.G. )įascism is usually counted a movement of the Right but, as Goldberg notes, many leftists viewed Mussolini with sympathy. (He at one point remarks, "if libertarianism could account for children and foreign policy, it would be the ideal political philosophy". He has learned from Murray Rothbard on the progressives as well. Flynn's comparison of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with Italian fascism and he cites Friedrich Hayek with respect. Goldberg has in the past treated libertarians with disdain, but here he offers an analysis of fascism that libertarians will find familiar. Jonah Goldberg has ruined what could have been a valuable book. LIBERAL FASCISM: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT
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