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=Fascism and the New Deal=

=Fascism and the New Deal=

It is "absurd to ignore, as all our textbooks do, the fact that the New Deal and European fascism grew from the same ideological roots, produced strikingly similar policies, and fostered national cultures that, if not identical, bore the resemblance of siblings," writes Occidental College Professor Thaddeus Russell. Naziism and Fascism were in fact "organically connected," argues Russell, to "the New Deal, the basis of what we now know as 'liberalism'," which he calls the "most influential American political movement of the twentieth century."<ref>Thaddeus Russell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ohV_-4GJaU0C A Renegade History of the United States]'' (Simon and Schuster, 2011), ISBN 1416576134, p. 240</ref>

It is "absurd to ignore, as all our textbooks do, the fact that the New Deal and European fascism grew from the same ideological roots, produced strikingly similar policies, and fostered national cultures that, if not identical, bore the resemblance of siblings," writes Occidental College Professor Thaddeus Russell. Naziism and Fascism were in fact "organically connected," argues Russell, to "the New Deal, the basis of what we now know as 'liberalism'," which he calls the "most influential American political movement of the twentieth century." The New Deal, he concludes, "created an economic system that was virtually identical to the national economies established in Italy and Germany, and further consolidated power in the hands of the president."<ref>Thaddeus Russell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ohV_-4GJaU0C A Renegade History of the United States]'' (Simon and Schuster, 2011), ISBN 1416576134, pp. 240, 245</ref>

"Both Stalin's Russia and Mussolini's Italy influenced the New Deal enormously,"<ref>Amity Shlaes, "[http://www.aei.org/article/26390 The Real Deal]," ''The Wall Street Journal'', June 25, 2007</ref> writes Amity Schlaes, author of ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=7fZ6AAAACAAJ The Forgotten Man]''. "[T]he New Deal was often compared with Fascism," according to cultural historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch.<ref>Wolfgang Schivelbusch, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Z3GV5_n1h04C Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939]'' (Macmillan, 2006) ISBN 080507452X, p. 22</ref> “The slogan into which the Nazis condensed their economic philosophy, ''Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz'' (i.e., the commonweal ranks above private profit) is likewise the idea underlying the American New Deal,” wrote Ludwig von Mises.<ref>Ludwig von Mises, ''[http://mises.org/books/socialism.pdf Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis]'' (Yale University Press, 1951), pp. 578-579</ref>

"Both Stalin's Russia and Mussolini's Italy influenced the New Deal enormously,"<ref>Amity Shlaes, "[http://www.aei.org/article/26390 The Real Deal]," ''The Wall Street Journal'', June 25, 2007</ref> writes Amity Schlaes, author of ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=7fZ6AAAACAAJ The Forgotten Man]''. "[T]he New Deal was often compared with Fascism," according to cultural historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch.<ref>Wolfgang Schivelbusch, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Z3GV5_n1h04C Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939]'' (Macmillan, 2006) ISBN 080507452X, p. 22</ref> “The slogan into which the Nazis condensed their economic philosophy, ''Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz'' (i.e., the commonweal ranks above private profit) is likewise the idea underlying the American New Deal,” wrote Ludwig von Mises.<ref>Ludwig von Mises, ''[http://mises.org/books/socialism.pdf Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis]'' (Yale University Press, 1951), pp. 578-579</ref>