From Depression to War

From Depression to War

The excellent American Historian Michael Parenti in a short talk from 1990 on
THE FUNCTIONS OF FASCISM...
A more recent description provided by Maria Gilardin of TUC radio highlights the parallels to the present : Parenti says that fascism is a new order and consciousness that served the same old power structure and promised to solve the ills of the many while protecting the interests of the few. He answers in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Bc4KJx2Ao