Fascism
What is the history of the spread of fascism in Europe during the 1920’s and 1930’s?
Many believe that the spread of fascism in Europe would have been stopped if the Nationalists had been defeated during the Spanish Civil War.
Business loves fascism because it does not curtail its freedom, is hostile towards labor and uses nationalism to keep the masses obedient. That obedience prevents the masses (us citizens) from interrupting business practices.
America did a great deal of business with Nazi Germany until the outbreak of WWII. Hearst newspapers published, from 1934 to Pearl Harbor, dozens of signed propaganda articles by Dr. Goebbels, Goering and other Nazis. IBM was paid royalties for the use of its punch card machines by the SS (to document the names of those they gassed and burned). Prescott Bush sold arms to Hitler until forced to stop by Congress.
I don’t believe we did anything to thwart the persecution of the Jews and/or others despite the post-war propaganda.
The problem with fascism , or any other ism, is that it can get out of control.
American foreign policy is not the spreading of freedom, democracy and prosperity as the propaganda goes. Instead our foreign policy is about control, theft and exploitation, in other words fascist.
Isn’t the portrayal of WWII as a good war and coverage of the holocaust mainly propaganda to make America appear righteous? It distract the public from the real reasons for the war which are too revealing about what our policies really are.
There have been many holocausts in relatively recent history (200 years) which receive little attention.
It is not constructive to get caught up in a contest over whose persecution is worse: the slaughter of approximately 1 million Native Americans; the enslavement of Africans resulting in an estimated 10 million dead; 11.5 million blacks died in the Belgian Congo from 1891 to 1911; 1.5 million Armenians killed during World War I; 21 million dead in the USSR in 1921 due to a partly Soviet-engineered famine; 12.3 million Ukraineans starved to death from 1932 to 1939 thanks to Stalin; up to 15 million Russians disappeared into Soviet GULAGS; 1.5 million Bengalese starved to death in 1941 due to war-related famine; 3 million German civilians were killed in the last months of WWII; 1 to 3 million Cambodians killed by the Khmer Rouge regime; 3-4 million Vietnamese killed during it’s American War; 200,000 Timorese were killed from 1983 to 1985; 800.000 to 1 million Hutus and Tutsies killed during the Rwandan civil war; 250,000 died from 1991 to 2000 in Yugoslavia thanks to Milosevic; and maybe 1 million Iraqis killed during the current war being good examples. So why the intense focus on the Nazi Jewish holocaust?
Does it serve a political purpose?
America will not stand for fascism … when it competes with our fascism.
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