[January 25, 2021] The more I hear about domestic disturbances across America and see folks blaming it on fascism, the more interested I have become in understanding the fascist movement. On a recent recommendation from my wife, I watched a lecture by Dinesh D’Souza on the origins of Nazism in Europe. I was intrigued by his idea that Jim Crow laws in the U.S. influenced fascism. Now that the season has turned to Winter, I picked up reading early 20th-century American history. Post-WWI history is a bit sparse. I could not find much. I turned over a few books but found them wanting. That’s why I focused on a book by D’Souza called The Big Lie, and I am highlighting it today because of his ideas that are very different from we hear daily in the news media. Has he discovered the “big lie” that fascism and political conservatism are partners in world hate and destruction? He has answers that question.
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, Dinesh D’Souza, 2017
Fascism itself, according to D’Souza, arose due to the spectacular failure of Karl Marx’s predictions about proletarian revolutions. Both Mussolini (the Italian dictator) and Lenin proposed different reasons for this failure, but they remained socialists dedicated to a highly centralized government and totalitarian states.
D’Souza writes that fascism is a political philosophy with a background that has been erased by the very practitioners of the big lie; academia, the media, and Hollywood. Fascism’s founder, according to D’Souza, was Giovanni Gentile (an Italian) who, like Mussolini after him, moved from Marxism to fascism. Most of Gentile’s recommended policies and thinking could easily be mistaken for any recent U.S. Democrat Party platform.
Initially, I was skeptical about D’Souza’s strong argument on the links between fascism and the American Left. He gives us the history of how Leftists throughout the world support fascist ideals, going back to the beginning of the 20th century. For example, what both fascists and leftists have in common is a hatred for religion (especially Christianity) and a love for eugenics, big government, scientific “experts,” and the use of deceit and violence to achieve their goals.
The book contains information about the “proto-fascist” biases of the U.S. President and progressive Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat) who segregated America by race, reversing decades of Republican insistence of free men after the U.S. Civil War. What D’Souza has done in spades is to link political Progressivism to Nazism. He notes, for example, that Hitler’s’ anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws were explicitly patterned after Democrat-instituted segregation and anti-miscegenation laws in the Southern U.S. and that those progressives in America “outpaced the Nazis in initiating mass programs of forced incarceration and forced sterilization.”
A book on the ideological war between Progressivism and Democracy that you will not want to miss. This book is highly recommended.
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Many of my friends went into this war. Some died there. All were changed.
Same here. I’m for freedom, period! Like Gen. Satterfield says, I’m a patriot, hard working man. Let those folks succeed and those looking for a handout go to California or New York. Leave us alone.
WOW, how interesting and a direct assault on the liberal progressive mvt.
Yes, I highly recommend this book. 🍀
You an old sailor, Steve? I find this site attracts some folks with great stories to tell.
I read the book a few months ago and thought to myself why hasn’t this been taught in colleges given attention to issues of race and racism across the world. Any way, D’Souza’s book is one read you’ll never forget.
I plan to go out and buy this book at my local bookstore. I no longer shop for books on Amazon because they are now part of the fad of censorship.
Thanks Wendy. I plan to do the same. I glad you came back to this article to let us know. I respect those who update their info here. And, I’m appreciative for Gen. Satterfield that he provides a sane outlet for us to discuss such matters.
Good book summary Gen. Satterfield. This one is surely very very controversial. I’m glad that you are willing to review all kinds of books and not just ones on basic leadership.
Linking today’s Democrat Party and early 20th century fascism is a bit of a stretch.
Hey Fred, go online onto YouTube and search for Dinesh D’Souza and look for his lectures. Watch them and see if you can trash his arguments. He takes questions from the audience. Watch him make hash out of their arguments. He’s a very smart guy and hard to argue with because he has the facts at hand all the time.
Read the book, like all the others Gen. Satterfield highlights and make up your own mind about its validity. See if you can rebut D’Souza’s arguments. If you can’t then admit it and continue to do so or find someone who can. I also haven’t read the book.
Hi Willie, do you plan on reading the book? I do. Submitted my order on Goodreads today. I will no longer buy from Amazon because they are starting to censor more and more what they put up. Plus, Amazon is getting into more and more cheaper quality products from China.
Dead P G. I agree about Amazon putting up a lot of cheap quality Chinese products. You don’t get what you pay for at all. Amazon is just interested in the shortterm on making money but are willing to censor others and crush them. I will never buy from Amazon again.
Yeah, I won’t buy from Amazon. I’m starting my own boycott of them and other companies that contributed to the domestic terror groups BLM and antifa.
Here are a few of the companies who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to BLM:
Unisoft, Dordash, Amazon, Gatoraid, Nabisco, Deckers, Microsoft, Dropbox, Fitbit
There are many more that I will never buy their products again.
Thanks for the info guys!!!!
I’m boycotting a number of companies that now support censorship.
Great book …. I read it last year — found it in the airport in one of the bookstores on the reduced price shelf. I’m glad I found it.
Well, Gen. Satterfield, you sure know how to pick out books that have a great pushback on them. I looked up his book on Amazon and Goodreads and found that the responses to his book are mostly very positive with a small number of leftists who insist D’Souza is crazy. Let’s see how he can get the word out on his ideas moreso to the general public.
His book is being suppressed. I believe you will find his book soon deplatformed and removed from Amazon and other sites because he “incites violence” or some trumped-up charge. Incites violence is the new Leftists call for censorship. They are doing it to “keep us all safe.” Well, I for one don’t want to be kept safe by some so-called ‘expert.’ Why? Because the expert is himself a fascist.
Ouch, tell us what you think Tom. Gen. Satterfield has introduced a book that has ideas that should be researched more thoroughly. I for one, have not read his book. I will buy it before it gets censored.
Good comment that goes to the heart of Leftists/Progressives/Democrat Party members and their ideals. They love using fascist techniques because the are themselves fascists. I’ve know this long before D’Souza’s book came out.
Wow Wow Wow, haven’t heard this before. New idea? Crazy? Let’s read the book and draw our own conclusions.
I was thinking the same thing even though I had figured it out some time ago. D’Sousa makes it more academic and I loved having his references now when I argue with my liberal friends (oh, they are very blind to any idea that is not anti-American).
Good point Forrest. Is it crazy? Maybe not.