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Stalin's infamous pact with his fellow dictator has at last made the issue plain: His Communism is the ally not the foe of Fascism; the enemy, not the friend of democracy and the worker's cause.

— Norman Thomas

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The similarities of the economics of the New Deal to the economics of Mussolini's corporative state or Hitler's totalitarian state are both close and obvious.

To what extent may we expect to have the economics of fascism without its politics?

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In no way was Hitler the tool of big business. He was its lenient master. So was Mussolini except that he was weaker.

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