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All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We’ve got to make it unthinkable.

— 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?

I shall not stir multitudes, but may persuade my readers when I say that democratic socialism, not sure of all answers, not promising sudden utopias, is the world's best hope.

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

The ultimate values in the world are those of personality and no theory of the state, whether socialistic or capitalistic, is valid, which makes it master, not servant, of man.

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