The Biggest Lie

Fascism is one of the more interesting modern political theories, developed largely as a counter to communism, to come about in the aftermath of the Revolutions of the 1700 and 1800s in Europe and America. With the rise of more modern Neo-Fascist parties, there has been an effort to study the rise of fascism and discover its more primitive beginnings before it became more fully developed in the 20th Century. This book makes the argument that the ideas of fascist thinking largely arise in the Deep South, especially after the Civil War and Reconstruction, and went from that point in time to spread across the country influencing large corporations and individual people and their thinking.

Personally, I do not find the argument entirely convincing myself. While there are elements of fascist thought in the immediate years after the Civil War, especially with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, that does not mean that led to the beginning of fascist thinking and development. The author tries to argue that fascism, because of its rise in the Deep South, is largely an American process, again something that I do not agree with.