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[[File:NewDealNRA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The NRA's Blue Eagle logo was inspired by its counterpart European Fascist movements of the 1930s.<ref>[http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-01-16.asp Fascism and the Blue Eagle],  

[[File:NewDealNRA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The NRA's Blue Eagle logo was inspired by its counterpart European Fascist movements of the 1930s.<ref>[http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-01-16.asp Fascism and the Blue Eagle],  

by Jacob G. Hornberger, 16 January 2009. Retrieved from the Future of Freedom Foundation, (fff.org) 8 September 2010.</ref>]]

by Jacob G. Hornberger, 16 January 2009. Retrieved from the Future of Freedom Foundation, (fff.org) 8 September 2010.</ref>]]

The centerpiece of the [[New Deal]] of [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] was the '''National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933''', which was “similar to experiments being carried out by the fascist dictator [[Benito Mussolini]] in Italy and by the [[Nazi]]s in [[Adolf Hitler]]'s Germany,” according to John A. Garraty,<ref>[http://sah.columbia.edu/about/history.html past president]</ref> of the Society of American Historians.<ref>John Arthur Garraty, ‘’[https://books.google.com/books?id=DGRuAAAAMAAJ The American Nation]’’, 4th ed., vol. 2 (Harper & Row, 1979) ISBN 0060422696, p. 656</ref> NIRA established the [[National Recovery Administration]] (NRA), “the New Deal’s attempt to bring to America the substance of Mussolini’s corporativism.”<ref>Leonard Peikoff, ‘’[https://books.google.com/books?id=2_xpAAAAIAAJ The Ominous Parallels]’’ (Stein and Day, 1982) ISBN 081282850X, p. 293</ref> As one NRA study concluded, “The Fascist principles are very similar to those which have been evolving in America and so are of particular interest at this time.”<ref>Janet C. Wright, "Capital and Labor Under Fascism," National Archives, Record Group 9, Records of the National Recovery Administration,[http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/009.html#9.2.4 Special Research and Planning Reports and Memoranda, 1933-35], Entry 31, Box 3</ref>

The centerpiece of the [[New Deal]] of [[President Franklin Roosevelt]] was the '''National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933''', which was “similar to experiments being carried out by the fascist dictator [[Benito Mussolini]] in Italy and by the [[Nazi]]s in [[Adolf Hitler]]'s Germany,” according to John A. Garraty,<ref>[http://sah.columbia.edu/about/history.html past president]</ref> of the Society of American Historians.<ref>John Arthur Garraty, ‘’[https://books.google.com/books?id=DGRuAAAAMAAJ The American Nation]’’, 4th ed., vol. 2 (Harper & Row, 1979) ISBN 0060422696, p. 656</ref> NIRA established the [[National Recovery Administration]] (NRA), “the New Deal’s attempt to bring to America the substance of Mussolini’s corporativism.”<ref>Leonard Peikoff, ‘’[https://books.google.com/books?id=2_xpAAAAIAAJ The Ominous Parallels]’’ (Stein and Day, 1982) ISBN 081282850X, p. 293</ref> As one NRA study concluded, “The Fascist principles are very similar to those which have been evolving in America and so are of particular interest at this time.”<ref>Janet C. Wright, "Capital and Labor Under Fascism," National Archives, Record Group 9, Records of the National Recovery Administration,[https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/009.html#9.2.4 Special Research and Planning Reports and Memoranda, 1933-35], Entry 31, Box 3</ref>

Just as Mussolini “organized each trade or industrial group or professional group into a state supervised trade association” that “operated under state supervision and could plan production, quality, prices, distribution, labor standards, etc.,”<ref>John T. Flynn, ''[http://mises.org/books/rooseveltmyth.pdf The Roosevelt Myth]'' (The Devin-Adair Company, 1948) pp. 42-43</ref> the NRA “forced virtually all American industry, manufacturing, and retail business into cartels possessing the power to set prices and wages, and to <ref>[http://www.fee.org/pdf/the-freeman/1005RMEColumn.pdf]</ref> dictate the levels of production.”

Just as Mussolini “organized each trade or industrial group or professional group into a state supervised trade association” that “operated under state supervision and could plan production, quality, prices, distribution, labor standards, etc.,”<ref>John T. Flynn, ''[http://mises.org/books/rooseveltmyth.pdf The Roosevelt Myth]'' (The Devin-Adair Company, 1948) pp. 42-43</ref> the NRA “forced virtually all American industry, manufacturing, and retail business into cartels possessing the power to set prices and wages, and to <ref>[http://www.fee.org/pdf/the-freeman/1005RMEColumn.pdf]</ref> dictate the levels of production.”