The Danger of Fascism in the United States

The Big Business-military coalition in the United States, Paul A. Baran wrote in this prescient reprise from 1952, assumes all of the functions of a fascist regime…. And it develops rapidly into its own American variety of government under capitalism in an age of imperialism, wars, and national and social revolutions. It becomes fully adapted to its sinister historical mission—to be the instrument of ruthless class struggle on the national and international planes.