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=="Friendly Fascism"==

=="Friendly Fascism"==

Even some New Dealers have come to see the essential similarities between their ideology and fascism. Bertram Gross, for example, was a leading architect of liberal social policy under presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Carter.<ref>Richard Poe , “[http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22062 Third Way or Third Reich?]” FrontPageMagazine, June 22, 2000</ref>

Even some New Dealers have come to see the essential similarities between their ideology and fascism. For example, according to ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLmyw-p7IwUC Friendly Fascism]'', by left-wing political science professor Bertram Gross, a leading architect of liberal social policy under presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Carter:<ref>Richard Poe , “[http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22062 Third Way or Third Reich?]” FrontPageMagazine, June 22, 2000</ref>

 

{{cquote|I sought solutions for America's ills... through more power in the hands of central government.... In this I was not alone. Almost all my fellow planners, reformers, social scientists, and urbanists presumed the benevolence of more concentrated government power.

"I sought solutions for America's ills ... through more power in the hands of central government," wrote Gross, a leftwing political scientist and urban studies professor. "In this I was not alone. Almost all my fellow planners, reformers, social scientists, and urbanists presumed the benevolence of more concentrated government power."

Big Business-Big Government partnerships ..., were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler and the Japanese empire builders.... I see Big Business and Big Government as a joint danger.... Anyone looking for black shirts, mass parties or men on horseback will miss the telltale clues of this creeping fascism.... In America, it would be supermodern and multiethnic&mdash;as American as Madison Avenue, executive luncheons, credit cards and apple pie. It would be fascism with a smile.}}

"Big Business-Big Government partnerships ...," he wrote, "were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler and the Japanese empire builders. ... I see Big Business and Big Government as a joint danger."

"Anyone looking for black shirts, mass parties or men on horseback will miss the telltale clues of this creeping fascism..." wrote Gross in his 1980 book ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLmyw-p7IwUC Friendly Fascism]''. "In America, it would be supermodern and multiethnic -- as American as Madison Avenue, executive luncheons, credit cards and apple pie. It would be fascism with a smile."

 

While writing his book, Gross dreamed that he was searching through a huge, empty house for "friendly fascists."

While writing his book, Gross dreamed that he was searching through a huge, empty house for "friendly fascists."

{{cquote|I flung open one of the doors," Gross writes. "And there sitting at a typewriter and smiling back at me, I saw myself."<ref>Bertram Myron Gross, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLmyw-p7IwUC Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America]'' (South End Press, 1980) ISBN 0896081494, pp. 3-5</ref>}}

{{cquote|I flung open one of the doors," Gross writes. "And there sitting at a typewriter and smiling back at me, I saw myself."<ref>Bertram Myron Gross, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLmyw-p7IwUC Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America]'' (South End Press, 1980) ISBN 0896081494, pp. 3-5</ref>}}