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Quotes from The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution — John Thomas Flynn

1882–1964 United States

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It can never be done in a society of free men where criticism cannot be silenced and where compliance cannot be enforced.

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

It ended in fascism and Hitler, for the line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

This odd effect was due to the fact that a new Socialist enterprise entered the market. It took over Fabian socialism as its product, but it found a new and attractive brand name for its goods. It was called the Planned Economy.

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

Why is the Communist so deeply stirred about the Negro? Is he trying to correct injustices suffered by the Negro in order to improve his lot here and make him love America more? We know that the Communist has one supreme interest and that is to excite and stimulate the hatreds of every class in the country.

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

The old Socialists, with their luminous dreams, got power in Germany after World War I, and operated a society not greatly different from that now in effect in England—partially nationalized and partially planned. It ended in fascism and Hitler, for the line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Thomas Flynn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.