The coming of the American behemoth : the genesis of fascism in the United States, 1920-1940 /

The Coming of the American Behemoth" is intended as a primer, to forge much-needed discourse on the nature of fascism and its particular forms within the United States. Drawing from a range of authors who wrote during the 1930s and early 1940s, Michael Joseph Roberto examines how the driving fo...

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Main Author: Roberto, Michael Joseph (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018]
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505 0 |a Introduction : Fascism as the dictatorship of capital -- Part 1. The germ of fascism in the prosperous 1920s. The wonders of American capitalism in the new era -- Fascist processes in capitalist accumulation -- The spectacle of prosperity and necessity of spin -- Every man a capitalist? Fascist ideology of businessmen in 1920s America -- The paradox of capitalist progress, 1922-1929 -- Onset of the 1929 crisis and the pivot toward fascism -- Part 2. The general crisis and embryonic fascism in the 1930s. "Years of the locust" and the call for a Mussolini -- The New Deal as a transition to fascism? -- "A smokescreen over America" -- The class character of embryonic American fascism -- Roosevelt on fascism and the false dichotomy of good vs. bad capitalism -- The seminal work of Robert A. Brady on fascism in the business system -- Conclusion : Fascism and the problem of American exceptionalism. 
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