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Fascism glorifies both militarism and war. It is as surely a menace to the peace as to the liberty of mankind.

— Norman Thomas

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"The Pacifist's Dilemma", The Nation magazine, January 16, 1937. Quoted in Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press,1990.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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