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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (82933)	6/27/2000 2:26:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

That's very interesting. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica doesn't mention it in its MB article. Is it in Italian? Of course, it could hardly have had any influence what ever on the New Deal if it were published in 1938. As for Flynn, I see no reason to believe anything he wrote. He doesn't seem to have any facts or experience from what you quoted. I agree that there are some people who confuse the fascist idea with the New Deal. But it just doesn't add up. The New Deal was the result of years of reformist experiment, of untested ideas, and desperation. Some of the components of the New Deal, like NRA and AAA and RFC, were the outgrowth of Hoover era legislation as well as foreign legislation. The labor laws were the culmination of years of legislation and court cases. The aocial security ideas started in Bismarck's Germany. The trade laws came from a century before in England. I liked FDR's statement about being in a "wave of successful experiment." If you look at the actual condition of the country in March, 1934, you will see that almost everyone with conventional ideas had no further suggestions to make. The economic verities of the 19th century had been falsified. Nothing worked. We were ripe for real revolution. I remember those days. One third of the workforce was unemployed. Many people died of malnutrition or starvation. I remember people begging for food at my home almost everyday. We were given a child as a servant because she had no other way to eat. My aunt with an unemployed husband (he was a graduate engineer) had to give away her baby so it could eat. I remember little children eating out of our garbage can (there was almost nothing there), and sometimes breaking into our kitchen and stealing food. If Roosevelt had come into office in 1933 and done nothing the people would have overthrown the government.