Dakota Reads’s Reviews > Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism > Status Update

page 36 “Today, no one in U.S. policy circles worries about the politico-economic oppression suffered in dozens of right-wing client states. Their professed desire to bring Western political democracy to nations that have had revolutions rarely extends to free-market autocracies.”

quote below about how fascists in italy learned from us conservatives how to achieve fascism’s class goals while remaining within the liberal semi-democratic framework

“To maintain profit levels, the large landowners and industrialists would have to slash wages and raise prices. The state in turn would have to provide them with massive subsidies and tax exemptions. To finance this corporate welfarism, the populace would have to be taxed more heavily, and social services and welfare expenditures would have to be drastically cut—measures that might sound familiar to us today.”