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In fact, much of Nazism was borrowed<ref>[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d34748 Southington, Connecticut. School children pledging their allegiance to the flag], United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 (Library of Congress)</ref> from American progressives<ref>Even the term "national socialism" was coined by American socialist Edward Bellamy. (Alison Ravetz , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4thHBdqD2tEC Council Housing and Culture: The History of a Social Experiment]'' (Psychology Press, 2001), ISBN 0415239451, p. 49; c.f. Sylvia Strauss, "Gender, Class and Race in Utopia," in Daphne Patai, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qV7yKyMeGB4C Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy]'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), ISBN 0870236342, p. 71). He was the author of the 1888 utopian novel ''[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/17/books/looking-back-at-looking-backward-we-have-seen-the-future-and-it-didn-t-work.htm Looking Backward]'', which was [http://www.education.com/study-help/article/progressive-era-18951914/ read by most early progressives] as is said to have [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=93&type=issue kicked off the Progressive Era]. Robert Weir, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=y7n2tJVd3YsC Class in America: An Encyclopedia] (ABC-CLIO, 2007), ISBN 0313068356, p. 65</ref> and Democrats<ref>Jim Lindgren, [http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_10_17-2004_10_23.shtml#1098345826 1938 Gallup poll data], The Volokh Conspiracy, October 21, 2004, 4:03am</ref>&mdash;eugenics and "racial hygiene,"<ref>Karlheinz Weissmann, "[http://mises.org/journals/jls/12_2/12_2_3.pdf The Epoch of National Socialism]," ''The Journal of Libertarian Studies'' Vol. 12 No. 2 (Fall 1996), pp. 257–294</ref> for example. As [http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/Nisbet.pdf Robert Nisbet] observed:

In fact, much of Nazism was borrowed<ref>[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d34748 Southington, Connecticut. School children pledging their allegiance to the flag], United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 (Library of Congress)</ref> from American progressives<ref>Even the term "national socialism" was coined by American socialist Edward Bellamy. (Alison Ravetz , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4thHBdqD2tEC Council Housing and Culture: The History of a Social Experiment]'' (Psychology Press, 2001), ISBN 0415239451, p. 49; c.f. Sylvia Strauss, "Gender, Class and Race in Utopia," in Daphne Patai, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qV7yKyMeGB4C Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy]'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), ISBN 0870236342, p. 71). He was the author of the 1888 utopian novel ''[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/17/books/looking-back-at-looking-backward-we-have-seen-the-future-and-it-didn-t-work.htm Looking Backward]'', which was [http://www.education.com/study-help/article/progressive-era-18951914/ read by most early progressives] as is said to have [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=93&type=issue kicked off the Progressive Era]. Robert Weir, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=y7n2tJVd3YsC Class in America: An Encyclopedia] (ABC-CLIO, 2007), ISBN 0313068356, p. 65</ref> and Democrats<ref>Jim Lindgren, [http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_10_17-2004_10_23.shtml#1098345826 1938 Gallup poll data], The Volokh Conspiracy, October 21, 2004, 4:03am</ref>&mdash;eugenics and "racial hygiene,"<ref>Karlheinz Weissmann, "[http://mises.org/journals/jls/12_2/12_2_3.pdf The Epoch of National Socialism]," ''The Journal of Libertarian Studies'' Vol. 12 No. 2 (Fall 1996), pp. 257–294</ref> for example. As [http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/Nisbet.pdf Robert Nisbet] observed:

{{cquote|the West's first real experience with totalitarianism&mdash;political absolutism extended into every possible area of culture and society, education, religion, industry, the arts, local community and family included, with a kind of terror always waiting in the wings&mdash;came with the American war state under [[Woodrow Wilson]]."<ref>Robert A. Nisbet, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=wMElAAAAMAAJ The Twilight of Authority]'' (Oxford University Press, 1975), p. 183</ref>}}

{{cquote|the West's first real experience with totalitarianism&mdash;political absolutism extended into every possible area of culture and society, education, religion, industry, the arts, local community and family included, with a kind of terror always waiting in the wings&mdash;came with the American war state under [[Woodrow Wilson]]."<ref>Robert A. Nisbet, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=wMElAAAAMAAJ The Twilight of Authority]'' (Oxford University Press, 1975), p. 183. Wilson's racism "was often of a piece with the reigning [http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/0205/p09s01-coop.html progressive obsession with eugenics], the pseudoscience that strove to perfect society through better breeding."</ref>}}

Likewise, Nazi "domestic policies were remarkably friendly toward the German lower classes, soaking the wealthy and redistributing the burdens of wartime to the benefit of the underprivileged," including "transferring the tax burden to corporations."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 7, 38</ref>

Likewise, Nazi "domestic policies were remarkably friendly toward the German lower classes, soaking the wealthy and redistributing the burdens of wartime to the benefit of the underprivileged," including "transferring the tax burden to corporations."<ref>Gotz Aly, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nDcJDKnVS7EC Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State]'', tr. Jefferson Chase (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0805087265, pp. 7, 38</ref>