Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

By: Bertram M. Gross

Published July 1st 1999 by South End Press (first published January 25th 1980)

Category: Business

Pages: 410 pages

ISBN: 9780896081499

Description:
This provocative and original look at current trends in the United States presents a grim forecast of a possible totalitarian future. The author shows how the chronic problems faced by the U.S. in the late twentieth century require increasing collusions between Big Business and Big Government in order to 'manage' society in the interests of the rich and powerful.

This "friendly fascism," Gross argues, will probably lack the dictatorships, public spectacles and overt brutality of the classic varieties of Germany, Italy and Japan, but has at its root the same denial of individual freedoms and democratic rights. No one who cares about the future of democracy can afford to ignore the frightening possibilities of Friendly Fascism.

This is certainly a strikingly prescient book for a Trump era.