Reviews for Carlo Rosselli

The average rating for Carlo Rosselli based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-10-25 00:00:00 Maurice Mambro A PDF of this book can be found on Mises.org Good at defining fascism (repeatedly), clearly explains that the stage has to be set for a *political* master to step up, promise everything to everyone and grab the reigns of power. Written over 60 years ago, many indictments of America still hold true today. The fact that we are still around in our fascist "light" state I believe is a testament to the American people (though we're not headed in the right direction) and perhaps some luck. Also good at objectively looking at fascist dictators and why so many notable people admired them, instead of vilifying the dictators as pure evil incarnate. Alas the world is not so easily divided into good and evil. (As brought up in the book club - Rothbard is more accurate in describing the eternal conflict as one waged "between Liberty and Power.") As Flynn Summarizes- First let us restate our definition of fascism. It is, put briefly, a system of social organization in which the political state is a dictatorship supported by a political elite and in which the economic society is an autarchial capitalism, enclosed and planned, in which the government assumes responsibility for creating adequate purchasing power through the instrumentality of national debt and in which militarism is adopted as a great economic project for creating work as well as a great romantic project in the service of the imperialist state. As a warning- "... when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement... It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, ... will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life." (^Talk about a run on sentence!)

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-28 00:00:00 Charles Hughes Interesting Quote: "Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans, as violently against Hitler and Mussolini as the next one, but who are convinced that the present economic system is washed up and that the present political system in America has outlived its usefulness and who wish to commit this country to the rule of the bureaucratic state; interfering in the affairs of the states and cities; taking part in the management of industry and finance and agriculture; assuming the role of great national banker and investor, borrowing billions every year and spending them on all sorts of projects through which such a government can paralyze opposition and command public support; marshaling great armies and navies at crushing costs to support the industry of war and preparation for war which will become our greatest industry; and adding to all this the most romantic adventures in global planning, regeneration, and domination all to be done under the authority of a powerfully centralized government in which the executive will hold in effect all the powers with Congress reduced to the role of a debating society. There is your fascist. And the sooner America realizes this dreadful fact the sooner it will arm itself to make an end of American fascism masquerading under the guise of the champion of democracy." -John Flynn, As We Go Marching, 1944