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[This article is excerpted from chapter 10 of As We Go Marching (1944).]   First let us state 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 autarchic capitalism, enclosed and planned, in which the

If the Lord God Jehovah had not created Basil Zaharoff, some novelist sooner or later would certainly have got around to the job. Indeed, it is by no means certain that Zaharoff, as we have him, is not the joint product of God and the fiction writers. Lieutenant Colonel Walter Guinness, member for Bury St.Edmonds, committed the blunder against

Mussolini became premier in October 1922. With the innumerable arguments about the march on Rome or with the story of the violent, lawless, and outrageous tactics he used to come to power we are not concerned here. That history has been told many times. Our business is to see the use he made of his power to fashion a new form of society. He did

[The Freeman , March 1954] Something over a year ago, Mr. Louis Bromfield, in the Freeman (”The Triumph of the Egghead,” December 1, 1952) defined the word egghead. It was designed to describe a character who pretends to the title of philosopher — a sort of professional intellectual — dedicated to the theory that the eggheads are the appointees of

[Excerpted from As We Go Marching (1944)] Fascism has attained to the dignity of a cuss word in America. When we disagree with a man’s social or political arguments, if we cannot reasonably call him a communist, we call him a fascist. The word itself has little more relation to its original and precise object than a certain well-beloved American

[Excerpted from As We Go Marching (1944). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Nathaniel Foote, is available for download .]   We are now able to see that this Italian society had set in motion certain streams of thought. We will see still others come into being. First we see the conviction of the people that there were economic and

[ The Roosevelt Myth (1948)] The dark realities of the country had sunk deeply into Roosevelt’s mind now. There were just a year and six months before a Democratic convention would meet to pick his successor. All that gaudy edifice of recovery of which he was the bemedaled architect was crumbling around him. One thing was certain. The Second New

[ From The Roosevelt Myth (1948)] There never has been in American politics a religion so expansively and luminously righteous as the New Deal. From the beginning to the end it was constant in one heroic enterprise — war to the death upon evil, upon greed, poverty, and oppression. It had, in fact, one monstrous enemy against which it tilted its

[ Country Squire in the White House (1940)] As I write this, the war in Europe has reached a critical stage for the two great empires, England and France. We know that the overwhelming conviction of the American people is that we should stay out of that war. There are some who would like to help the empires as much as possible without going to

[ As We Go Marching (1944)] The presence of the problem of an economic system definitely out of repair did not impress itself on the consciousness of the American public until well after Mr. Roosevelt’s administration had had its try at the situation for one term. After that the solemn truth settled only slowly upon our minds. By 1940 there were