About 1/4 way into the book. It is particularly scary with what will be happening with the inauguration this Friday (20 Jan 2017). People need to understand that fascism is an economic theory where business runs the government, but Nazism was the social/political method that sprang up to implement this theory. (Conversely the theory that government should run business...socialism...was implemented by the communistic social/political methodology.) Fascism, in its own right, does not demand ultra-nationalism, imperialism nor the suppression of the population, but it does lend itself towards it when power and money are concentrated in so few people. That club that can be formed can permeate the entire fabric of the nation. That this was originally written in 1991 (Reagan), was a reflection of the concerns in that era. However the intervening political flow of more and more power and more and more status to big business (Supreme Court rulings of, first, "personhood" for big business and then ability of this newly-acknowledged class of "people" to legally insert virtually an unrestricted amount of money into political campaign is a logical evolutionary manifestation of the seeds planted in the early 1990's bearing their expected fruit.) "...'When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism' ' – an uncredited New York Times reporter covering Halford E. Luccock in an article published September 12, 1938. ..." The concerns were real then, in the 1930's; equally in the 1990's, from Gross' book and should be equally today, as Trump and his cabinet of billionaires take control of the country.
In short...a MUST READ.
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