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Can we spot the reality in these quotes:
I [author, Gross Bertram] am uneasy with those who still adhere strictly to President Eisenhower’s warning in his farewell address against the potential for the disastrous rise of power in the hands of the military-industrial complex. Nearly two decades later, it should be clear to the opponents of militarism that the military-industrial complex does not walk alone. It has many partners: the nuclear-power complex, the technology-science complex, the energy-auto-highway complex, the banking-investment-housing complex, the city-planning-development-land-speculation complex, the agribusiness complex, the communications complex, and the enormous tangle of public bureaucracies and universities whose overt and secret services provide the foregoing with financial sustenance and a nurturing environment.2Yes, folks, “friendly” is just another camouflage for death and destruction; and the paving ain't with tar!
The first [trend] is a slow and powerful drift toward greater concentration of power and wealth in a repressive Big Business-Big Government partnership. This drift leads down the road toward a new and subtly manipulative form of corporatist serfdom. The phrase “friendly fascism” helps distinguish this possible future from the patently vicious corporatism of classic fascism in the past of Germany, Italy and Japan. It also contrasts with the unfriendly present of the dependent fascisms propped up by the U.S. government in El Salvador, Haiti, Argentina, Chile, South Korea, the Philippines and elsewhere.3
[T]he emerging Big Business-Big Government partnership has a global reach. It is rooted in colossal transnational corporations and complexes that help knit together a “Free World” on which the sun never sets. These are elements of the new despotism.4
I am worried by those who fail to remember— or have never learned— that Big Business-Big Government partnerships, backed up by other elements, were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese empire builders.5
In the United States it points toward more concentrated, unscrupulous, repressive, and militaristic control by a Big Business-Big Government partnership that— to preserve the privileges of the ultra-rich, the corporate overseers, and the brass in the military and civilian order— squelches the rights and liberties of other people both at home and abroad. That is friendly fascism.6
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1. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-t-point.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/09/are-we-there-yet-at-t-point.html
2. Gross, Bertram. Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 18) (p. 2). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition. (All bold emphasis added.)
3. Ibid., (Loc. 242+)
4. Ibid., (p. 2).
5. Ibid., (p. 3).
6. Ibid., (p. 161).
*Image: Repurposed & Recycled by SMS 2022 pursuant to the times
Artist 1920: Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Young
Repurposed by SMS 2022: Added "Private-Public Partnershi_!!" to top; added "Servitors of Serfdom" to bottom caption replacing "The Rivals"; added "Corporatism" on chair; and in various places added: Right Wing, Left Wing, Jack-boot jobbers, MSM and Bank to Iron Heels, Disinfo to polish, etc.
Source: https://www.cartooningcapitalism.com/good-morning
Date; June 15, 1920
Attribution: Art Young | Good Morning Magazine
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