Friendly Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendly Fascism write by Bertram Gross. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Friendly Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called “the best thing I’ve ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically.” In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a “nice-guy mask,” a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent corporate authoritarianism threatened to subvert constitutional democracy. But unlike the violent and sudden usurpations that led to fascism in the days of Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese empire builders, this new “smiling” American breed of fascism was gaining ground through gradual and silent infringements on the freedoms of the American people. First published over three decades ago, Friendly Fascism is uncannily predictive of the threats and realities of current political and economic power trends. Author Bertram Gross, a presidential adviser during the New Deal era, traces the history and logic of declining democracy in First World countries and pinpoints capitalist transnational growth and inappropriate responses to global crises as the sources of late twentieth-century despotism in America. Gross issues ever-urgent warnings about what happens when big business and big government become bedfellows—chronic inflation, recurring recession, overt and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of the environment—and simultaneously proffers a practical shift of perspective that could help US citizens build a truer democracy. He imagines an America in which heroes are no longer needed and the leadership is a group of non-elitists who “recognize the ignorance of the wise as well as the wisdom of the ignorant.”
Friendly Fascism
Friendly Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendly Fascism write by Gross Bertram Gross. This book was released on 2020-07-19. Friendly Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 8th November 2016 marked a startling new era in American political life. After the creeping ascent of Right wing authoritarian parties in the UK and Europe Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election brought an alarming form of "e;alt-right"e; neo-conservativism into the American political mainstream. Many aspects of this descent into the darkness of fascism was predicted by Bertram Gross in Friendly Fascism, a provocative and original critique of a subtle yet growing fascism in American political life. Gross shows that the chronic problems faced by the U.S. in the late twentieth century required increasing collusion between big business and big government to manage society in the interests of the privileged and powerful. The resulting "e;friendly fascism"e;, Gross suggests, lacks the dictatorships, public spectacles and overt brutality of 20th century fascism, but has at its root the same denial of individual freedoms and democratic rights. No one who cares about the future of democracy can afford to ignore the frightening realities of Friendly Fascism.
Friendly Facsism
Friendly Facsism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendly Facsism write by Bertram M. Gross. This book was released on 1980. Friendly Facsism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Friendly Fascism
Friendly Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendly Fascism write by Bertram Myron Gross. This book was released on 1982. Friendly Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Friendly Fascism
Friendly Fascism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendly Fascism write by Bertram M. Gross. This book was released on 1980. Friendly Fascism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Widely acclaimed and hotly debated, this provocative and original look at current trends in the United States presents a grim forecast of a possible totalitarian future--a book that "offers a very clear exposition of where America is, and how we got there" (William Shirer).
