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Fascism

Sir Oswald Mosley: Briton, Fascist, European
by Robert Row
LATE IN 1932, about a year after the financial crisis that rocked Britain to its foundations and heralded the great depression of the thirties, George Bernard Shaw said at a Fabian meeting in London: “You may remember the eloquence with which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald begged the nation…

The USSR Did Not “Save the World” from Fascism; the Soviet Union Was Saved from a One Front War with Germany
In May of every year, the successor state to the USSR inflicts on itself and other nations the exasperated delusion that it “saved the world” from fascism. Had Britain not given Poland a war guarantee, there would have been no war in the West, no German invasion of France or the Low Countries,…

A Few Remarks on Democracy
by Corneliu Codreanu (pictured)
In this piece, the founder and leader of the Romanian Iron Guard, Corneliu Codreanu, assails the vices of pluralistic and plutocratic “democracy”: Its factionalism, divisiveness, and propensity to elevate Jews and aliens over the interests of a native…

Sir Oswald’s Remarkable Lady
DIANA MOSLEY’S (pictured) A Life of Contrasts (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977) is an extremely important book. It provides an intimate picture of the age we have lived through, written from the vantage point of a member of one of its foremost political and literary families. Within the overall…

Christ, Nietzsche, and Caesar: Excerpt of a 1933 Speech by Sir Mosley on the Historical Roots of Fascism
The following is from a speech Sir Mosley gave to the English-Speaking Union in 1933. It is partially reproduced in his book, My Life, and appears on OswaldMosley.com. In it, Sir Mosley responds to the claim that fascism lacks a historical and intellectual basis.
OUR OPPONENTS allege that Fascism…

Everybody’s a Fascist Now!
by Kevin Alfred Strom
IF YOU WATCH FOX NEWS or read political blogs you probably have a headache from all the accusations of “fascism” bouncing back and forth from left to right and back again. “Obama’s a fascist!” “Rush is a fascist!” “Bush is a fascist!” “The Zionists are fascists!” “Your grandmother’s…

Vilfredo Pareto: The Karl Marx of Fascism
by James Alexander
ITALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS to political and social thought are singularly impressive and, in fact, few nations are as favored with a tradition as long and as rich. One need only mention names such as Dante, Machiavelli, and Vico to appreciate the importance of Italy in this respect. In…

The Myth of the Big Business / Nazi Axis
by K.R. Bolton
THE PARTY-LINE of the Left is that Fascism and Nazism were the last resort of Capitalism.[1] Indeed, the orthodox Marxist critique does not go beyond that. In recent decades there has been serious scholarship within orthodox academe to understand Fascism as a doctrine. Among these we…

Il Duce, Protector of Animals and Steward of Nature
Isle of Capri declared a bird sanctuary in 1932
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY was first advanced in fascist nations. Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany were far ahead of the nations of their day. In the cartoon image below, from Punch in 1939, Mussolini’s 1932 declaration of the Italian…

Major General J.F.C. Fuller
In remembrance of another great but half-forgotten Westerner
OUR MODERN MEDIA like to depict military men as trigger-happy simpletons whose throwback minds are still laboriously progressing from the 18th to the 19th century. Unfortunately, at least within the Western democracies, the rewards…