Veien fra det borgerlige demokrati til fascismen er kortere enn mange liker å tro. Dagbladets magasin har skrevet en artikkel basert på et nytt BBC-program om en iheltiet offentlig kjent hendelse.

Dagbladet: http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2007/08/02/507785.html
COAT: http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/dupont-by_colby.html
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

Lesningen/lyttingen kan godt suppleres med Niall Fergusons Colossus, hvor det blant annet spekuleres i en lignende utvikling i USA etter andre verdenskrig. LEs en kritisk anmeldelse som også kommenterer konflikten mellom Truman og MacArthur her:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/book1-d07.shtml

IN ENGLISH:
Fascism in the USA
The road from burgeoisie democracy to fascism is shorter than one would like to think. Below you can read an article about the attemt to create a fascist coup in the US in 1934, and listen to a recent BBC-programme about it.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/dupont-by_colby.html
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

You can also supplement this reading with a few chapters from (conservative) Niall Fergusons Colossus in which he paints a scenario of a similar development in the US after WW2. Red a critical review, also commenting on the conflict between Truman and MacArthur here: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/book1-d07.shtml