What Is Fascism? | by John T. Flynn

Audio version of the Mises Daily article for April 26, 2008. Written by John T. Flynn and read by Dr. Floy Lilley. http://mises.org

Text version of this audio presentation: http://mises.org/daily/2903

Excerpted from John T. Flynn's classic study, As We Go Marching. Originally published in 1944, it explains the idea and the movement called Fascism. Whether fascism was capitalist or anti-capitalist, labor or anti-labor, no one could say until the leaders themselves decided upon a course of action. It was improvised as the movement went along. It is a government system that accepts responsibility to make the economic system work at full energy, using the device of state-created purchasing power effected by means of government borrowing and spending, and which organizes the economic life of the people into industrial and professional groups to subject the system to control under the supervision of the state.

Read the complete book 'As We Go Marching' online:
http://mises.org/resources/2972

More writings by John T. Flynn:

Eggheads Through History
http://mises.org/daily/4182

The Merchant of Death: Basil Zaharoff
http://mises.org/daily/2687

Good Fascists and Bad Fascists
http://mises.org/daily/2360

Related links:

Who is John T. Flynn? by Justin Raimondo
http://www.mises.org/story/2890

Principles First by John F. McManus
http://www.myspace.com/thelibertyavenger/blog/540277782

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