Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize
fascism in movements such as Germany’s Third Reich or Italy’s
National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate
incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as linked to
the essence of monopoly-finance capitalism, operating under the
guise of American free-enterprise. But, as Michael Joseph Roberto
argues, this is exactly where fascism’s embryonic forms began
gestating in the United States, during the so-called prosperous
1920s and the Great Depression of the following decade. Drawing
from a range of authors who wrote during the 1930s and early 1940s,
Roberto examines how the driving force of American fascism comes,
not from reactionary movements below, but from the top, namely, Big
Business and the power of finance capital. More subtle than its
earlier European counterparts, writes Roberto, fascist America’s
racist, top-down quashing of individual liberties masqueraded as
“real democracy,” “upholding the Constitution,” and the
pressure to be “100 Percent American.” The Coming of the
American Behemoth is intended as a primer, to forge much-needed
discourse on the nature of fascism, and its particular forms within
the United States. The book focuses on the role of the
capital-labor relationship during the period between the two World
Wars, when the United States became the epicenter of the
world-capitalist system. Concentrating on specific processes, which
he characterizes as terrorist and non-terrorist alike, Roberto
argues that the interwar period was a fertile time for the
incubation of a protean form of tyranny – a fascist behemoth in
the making, whose emergence has been ignored or dismissed by
mainstream historians. This book is a necessity for anyone who
fears America tipping ever closer, in this era of Trump, to
full-blown fascism.
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