With the end of the cold war all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism Nazism Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity every crack in the common front against fascism.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all in our heads and in our everyday behavior the fascism that causes us to love power to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Fascism the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
I'm afraid based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.