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Liberal Fascism

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George Bernard Shaw & LF

I’m doing a piece on Shaw for a foreign publication, or at least I’m trying. I just found this passage from his book What’s What. Some may find it interesting:

Nowadays the Capitalist cry is: “Nationalize what you like; mu-
nicipalize all you can; turn the courts of justice into courts martial
and your parliaments and corporations into boards of directors with
your most popular mob orators in the chair, provided the rent, the
interest, and the profits come to us as before, and the proletariat still
gets nothing but its keep.”
This is the great corruption of Socialism which threatens us at
present. It calls itself Fascism in Italy, National Socialism (Nazi for
short) in Germany, New Deal in the United States, and is clever
enough to remain nameless in England; but everywhere it means the
same thing: Socialist production and Unsocialist distribution. So far,
out of the frying pan into the fire.

New on Liberal Fascism. . .


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