First published 1944
As We Go Marching
As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- John T. Flynn
- First published
- 1944
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 295
- ISBN
- 9781610160162
- License
- Still in copyright: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and a renewal for it was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. It is free to read and download from this archive, but it is not public domain and not Creative Commons.
The state & socialism War & foreign policy
John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S. was supposedly fighting the total state abroad, but meanwhile at home was drafting people, controlling all prices and wages, rationing all goods, and enforcing a wicked central plan through massive government coercion.
Were we becoming what we were supposedly fighting? Flynn said yes. The war on dictatorship abroad was bringing about dictatorship at home.
Flynn was a prominent journalist and rare case of an American public intellectual who resisted the onslaught of both the warfare and welfare states during the period in which FDR ruled America. This study links the domestic policy of the New Deal with the drive for war and wartime central planning. He draws attention to the bitter irony that America was becoming precisely what we were fighting.
His analysis of fascism is incisive and devastating. Though American conservatives (and liberals) have ignored this book and its lessons, it speaks of truths for the ages. His comparisons of the Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin regimes with what was taking place in the United States are truly unforgettable.
Flynn was not just a journalist but a real scholar and a moral critic of the police state. There is a reason why this great book is a classic of libertarian literature.
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- Is As We Go Marching free to download?
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- How long is As We Go Marching?
- 295 pages, 33 chapters, and about 107,840 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is As We Go Marching in the public domain?
- No. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years if someone filed a renewal, and a renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. It is free to read and download from this archive, but it is not public domain and not Creative Commons.
- Who wrote As We Go Marching?
- John T. Flynn (1882–1964) was a journalist, author, and master polemicist of the Old Right. He started out as a liberal columnist for that flagship of American liberalism, the New Republic, and wound up on the Right, denouncing "creeping socialism." What is… This archive holds 9 of Flynn's works.
What's in it
6 chapters · 107,840 words · page numbers are this file's
- Cover Pagep. 2
- Prefacep. 6
- Author's Notep. 16
- Part One: The Soil of Fascism: Italyp. 20
- Part Two: The Bad Fascism: Germanyp. 93
- Part Three: The Good Fascism: Americap. 185
In the lecture archive
Lectures that discuss As We Go Marching
Recorded talks in this archive that name this book, each linked to the moment it comes up:
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John T. Flynn: Revisionist Journalist
As We Go Marching, which came out in 1944, was, according to the historian Ronald Radosh, Flynn's most important representative and analytical work, the most informed and perceptive of all his books.
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06. Keynes and the 'New Economics' of Fascism (video)
It was called As We Go Marching.
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In his As We Go Marching, written in the midst of the war he had tried so hard to forestall, Flynn charged that the New Deal, culminating in its wartime embodiment, had finally established the corporate state that important elements …
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The International Language of the Austrian School
the Welfare State by Hazlitt, Country Squire in the White House, Flynn, As We Go Marching by Flynn and Our Enemy is a State, NOC, Foundations of the Market Price System, a wonderful book by Milton Shapiro, Murray Rothbard loved …
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The Library of Liberty, and the Archives of Evil
Some of Flynn's other books are also perhaps a bit harder to get, but they're very good, such as his book, As We Go Marching, and his biography of Franklin Roosevelt, actually two biographies, Franklin Roosevelt, Spruce County.
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John T. Flynn had exposed the socialist agenda and impact of the federal government's interventions in the Roosevelt Myth, 1948, and As We Go Marching, 1945.
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