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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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.