Reexamining History with Noam Chomsky: US Elite's view of European Fascism before WW2
Reexamining History with Noam Chomsky: US Elite's view of European Fascism before WWII
Noam Chomsky on Rossevelt's views of Mussolini's fascism:
“Well it was a mixed story. Roosevelt himself had a mixed attitude. For
example: he was pretty supportive of Mussolini’s fascism, in fact
described Mussolini as that admirable Italian gentleman. He later
concluded that Mussolini had been mislead by his association with Hitler
and had been lead kind of down the wrong path. But the American
business community, the power systems in the United States were highly
supportive of Mussolini. In fact even parts of the labor bureaucracy
were. Fortune Magazine for example, the major business journal, I think
in 1932, had an issue with the headline, I’m quoting it: ‘The wops are
unwopping themselves.'”
