Sep 17, 2021
Tying off the gushing wound that is interwar American fascism,
Fritz invites Boris and Rey down the twisted path of America First.
TENE examines two early organized incarnations of this sentiment
and gives a broad view of Americanist incubator that twice
encouraged Nazis, capitalists, and politicians to join together
under a common banner of isolationism, free markets, and
anti-Semitism. Fritz explains the career of a bony racist geezer
named James True, the "First Firster" whose America First, Inc.
mixed anti-labor propaganda with openly Nazi sentiments as he sold
custom-made truncheons for the coming pogrom. The main feature, the
America First Committee, picks up the torch and turns America First
into an 800k-strong movement of capitalists, cultural elites,
Nazis, and general isolationists with American hero Charles
Lindberg as their face. TENE takes a look at the bumbling FBI and
the efforts of British Intelligence to keep American fascism at bay
despite J. Edgar Hoover's best efforts. Also featuring: George
Deatherage, military contract engineer and the ultimate KKK LARPer,
George Sylvester Viereck and his scheme to turn the US
Congressional Record into a Nazi printing press, and why Hermann
Göring smelled like lion piss!
This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan
podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the
alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist
system. And how to get rid of all that.
Something like that...
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