"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group," : Franklin D. Roosevelt
That man knew of what he spoke, and he understood very well what was going on because he was at the center of it. But the next man knew even more, and said it plainer;
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power: Benito Mussolini
I have said on 4um before, and most did not agree, that the United States is a Facist state, but I simply did not have the quote to show the facts. Of all people who ever lived, Benito Mussolini would best know what constitutes a Facist state.