But Fascism Cannot Continue In A Modified

In Different Countries The Basis Of Resistance Takes Different Forms, But It Comes Chiefly From The Conservative Groups. Hence It Becomes Increasingly Difficult To Go On Spending In The Presence Of Persisting Deficits And Rising Debt. Some Form Of Spending Must Be Found That Will Command The Support Of The Conservative Groups. Political Leaders, Embarrassed By Their Subsidies To The Poor, Soon Learned That One Of The Easiest Ways To Spend Money Is On Military Establishments And Armaments, Because It Commands The Support Of The Groups Most Opposed To Spending.

But Alas, The Most Terrifying Aspect Of The Whole Fascist Episode Is The Dark Fact That Most Of Its Poisons Are Generated Not By Evil Men Or Evil Peoples, But By Quite Ordinary Men In Search Of An Answer To The Baffling Problems That Beset Every Society.

When The Fountains Of Government [borrowing] Abundance Began To Dry Up, When Through Lack Of Funds And The Impossibility Of Negotiating Fresh Loans The State Was Forced To Check The Extension Of Bureaucracy And To Put A Stop To Public Works, Then And Then Only Did The Italians Realize What It Meant To Have Allowed Themselves To Be Made One Of The Most Heavily Taxed Nations In The World.

But No One Can Praise Roosevelt For Doing This And Then Insist That He Restored Our Traditional Political And Economic Systems To Their Former Vitality.

No Matter What The Cause, Even Though It Be To Conquer With Tanks And Planes And Modern Artillery Some Defenseless Black Population, There Will Be No Lack Of Poets And Preachers And Essayists And Philosophers To Invent The Necessary Reasons And Gild The Infamy With Righteousness. To This Righteousness There Is, Of Course, Never An Adequate Reply. Thus A War To End Poverty Becomes An Unanswerable Enterprise. For Who Can Decently Be For Poverty? To Even Debate Whether The War Will End Poverty Becomes An Exhibition Of Ugly Pragmatism And The Sign Of An Ignoble Mind.