[Candor7]

Many years ago I took a seminar history course from one of the worlds foremost experts on the subject of fascism, its historical underpinnings, its social mechanisms and how it had been established politically. What he taught stick with me throughout my life from those days in 1970. HIs name is Professor Emeritus Gilbert Allardyce.

I recommend that you read his books and articles on Fascism:

Fascism was a world wide movement in the mid 1920s. There were fascist parties which were quite Active in the USA and Canada as well as throughout Europe.

Another well written essay on Obama's fascism was made available by Kylie Anne Shiver, a seminal work pointing out how fascism now has been initiated once again in America by Democrats

Barrack Obama : The Quintessential Liberal Fascist by Kyle-Anne Shiver

[RoosterRedux]

I wonder whatever happened to Kyle-Anne Shiver. She was a great writer...a real up-and-comer.

[Wallace T.]

This may be a good book but Franco, shown on the cover, was not a fascist but a traditional Latin authoritarian, not unlike Salazar in Portugal, Batista in Cuba, or Peron in Argentina. He led a coalition of fascists (the Falange), traditional Catholics, and monarchists of two factions (Carlists and Bourbons) against a Communist-Socialist (Republican) government. The Germans and Italians aided his side while the Soviets and Communists throughout the world helped the Republican side. However, Franco, while dealing extremely harshly on the defeated Reds, never aligned with the Axis, staying out of World War II. The Falangist faction shared power with the other non-fascist factions. By 1955, pragmatists in both Madrid and Washington and London determined that aligning Spain with NATO was necessary in waging the Cold War.

Subsequently, the authoritarian nature of the Spanish government lessened and Spain moved to becoming a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliament.

[Vaduz]

Indeed

What Alinsky’s critics saw was the burgeoning of a national movement, the carefully manipulated construction of people’s organizations, which all had two elements in common: (1) a collectivist creed, which denied the existence of personal responsibility; and (2) an amoral dogma, in which all means were justified by an imaginary utopian end.