All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.