Monday, September 7, 2026

FDR was a Red

  Louis Bonaparte was, of course, a Bonapartist--but so was Bismark (Hal Draper wrote of this in "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution", where he quotes extensively from the Marx-Engels correspondence concerning Bismark--if anyone is interested I can put this online).  Mussolini was a Bonapartist--but per this definition so was Franklin Roosevelt.

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THE 1917 LOUIS PROJECT concurs

The Political Economy of Fascism - CounterPunch.org

Manifesto of the Fascist party founded by Benito Mussolini in 1919 that was co-written by labor syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto that had a powerful impact on Russian art in the 1920s.

+ The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour workday for all workers

+ A minimum wage

+ The participation of workers’ representatives in the functions of industry commissions

+ To show the same confidence in the labor unions (that prove to be technically and morally worthy) as is given to industry executives or public servants

+ A strong progressive tax on capital (envisaging a “partial expropriation” of concentrated wealth)

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