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Franklin Roosevelt and Umberto Ecco’s Warning to America about Fascism [1]
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Date: 2022-10-12
“We must keep alert, so that the sense of these words will not be forgotten again. Ur-Fascism [Eternal Fascism] is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares." Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances – every day, in every part of the world.
Franklin Roosevelt's words of November 4, 1938, are worth recalling:
"I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases
to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful
means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in
our land."”
The New York Review of Books
June 22, 1995
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