As We Go Marching (LFB)

by John T. Flynn, Jeffrey A. Tucker (Editor), Byron W. King (Introduction)

Overview

This is John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. Flynn was a prominent journalist and rare case of an American public intellectual who resisted the onslaught of both the warfare and welfare states during the period in which FDR ruled America. This study links the domestic policy of the New Deal with the drive for war and wartime central planning. He draws attention to the bitter irony that America was becoming precisely what we were fighting. His analysis of fascism is incisive and devastating.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940014424455
Publisher:	Laissez Faire Books
Publication date:	05/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	295
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

John Thomas Flynn (October 25, 1882, Bladensburg, Maryland – April 13, 1964) was an American journalist best known for his opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to American entry into World War II.
Before the New Deal, Flynn thought of himself as a liberal. He was right. And he never changed his mind, either. He was a liberal. He believed in progress, free speech, free inquiry, small government, and maximum freedom in every sphere of life. That included the economic sphere. Here is where the crowd that called themselves liberals in the 1930s and '40s departed from him. Flynn believed that liberalism also meant a free economy. He was an opponent of corporatism, of state intervention, of state-created cartels, of authoritarian rule. The New Deal was all those things. Flynn showed that it culminated in militarism and war — the New Deal by other means. It was a continuation and not a departure. We were fighting against fascism abroad while imposing it at home.