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[2] [3] During the 1930s, Virgil Effinger established the paramilitary Black Legion, a violent offshoot of the KKK that sought to establish fascism in the United States by launching a revolution against the federal government. Although it was responsible for a number of attacks, the Black Legion was small in size and ultimately petered out. [4]
The final death knell was a sensationalistic article published in November 1929, by Harper's Magazine, "Mussolini's American empire" [7] by Marcus Duffield claiming the FLNA was part of Mussolini's plot to control the Italian-American community in the United States and raise "soldiers for Fascism". The Italian government concluded that the ...
[21] [22] During the 1930s, Virgil Effinger established the paramilitary Black Legion, a violent offshoot of the KKK that sought to establish fascism in the United States by launching a revolution against the federal government. Although it was responsible for a number of attacks, the Black Legion was small in size and ultimately petered out. [23]
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook details the emergence of anti-fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, and offers an analysis of contemporary anti-fascist movements, particularly antifa in the United States and Europe. Bray argues in his book that militant anti-fascism is a reasonable and legitimate political tradition, and describes his book as "an ...
The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Weber, Eugen. [1964] 1985. Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (Contains chapters on fascist movements in different countries.) Wallace, Henry. "The Dangers of American Fascism". The New York Times, Sunday, 9 April 1944.
The Christian Party was an American fascist political party which was founded by William Dudley Pelley in 1935. [2] He chose 16 August 1935 as the Christian Party's founding date, because it was a so-called "pyramid date". [3] The party can be considered the political wing of Pelley's paramilitary organization, the Silver Legion of America.
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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism is a 2023 book by Rachel Maddow about fascist sympathizers in 1930s America. The book, which was inspired by her research for her podcast Ultra , includes the Silver Legion of America , the American White Guard, the Christian Front , and the propaganda operation of George Viereck .