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INTRODUCTION 7

of state and corporate power.” For the remainder of this work, fascism will
be defined as the merger of state and corporate power.
In fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, the state gained control over the
corporations. In modern America, corporations have gained control over
the state.
The end result is the same.
Mussolini proclaimed, “The maxim that society exists only for the
well-being and freedom of the individuals composing it does not seem to
be in conformity with nature’s plans. . . . If classical liberalism spells indi-
vidualism, fascism spells government.”
And Thomas J. DiLorenzo, professor of economics at Loyola College
in Baltimore, Maryland, wrote, “[I]t is important to recognize that, as an
economic system, fascism was widely accepted in the 1920s and 30s. Th e
evil deeds of individual fascists were later condemned, but the practice of
economic fascism never was.”
Party politics, slogans, and social issues are employed to distract the
masses. The world’s elite deal in only one commodity—power. They seek to
gain and maintain the controlling power that comes from great wealth,
usually gained through the monopoly of ownership over basic resources.
Politics and social issues matter little to the globalist ruling elite, who move
smoothly between corporate business and government service. Th e desire
for wealth with its attendant power and control drives their activities. It is
this unswerving attention to commerce and banking that lies behind
nearly all modern world events. It is the basis for a “New World Order”
mentioned by both Hitler and former president George H. W. Bush.
In twenty- first-century America, many thoughtful persons have wit-
nessed what appears to be a recycling of the events of pre–World War II
Germany: the destruction of a prominent national structure; rushed emer-
gency legislation; the rise of a secretive national security apparatus; at-
tempts to register both firearms and people, coupled with preemptive
wars of aggression propelled by fervent nationalism.
This may be simply a coincidence, some synchronistic cycle of history.
But this also may be a covert plan being carried out by individuals follow-
ing a definite agenda.