Decorated Marine General Smedley Butler describes a political conspiracy to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
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This isn’t the first time The UNITED STATES was almost taken over by an internal communist plot
Your title is almost correct. It was not a communist plot, but a plot to OUST communists, like FDR & Co.
I value the book the wrote: War is a racket, as that is exactly what the US military had been used for: to steal the resources of other countries for a quick buck.
The consequences of that type of thinking are quite clear in the world today. Even Putin mentioned it as the prevailing underpinning of the policies of the west. He derided it, because, in his view, it undermined: independence, autarkism, civilization and the deal making.
Having said this, we also have to consider the backdrop of 1933, namely the efforts on the part of the Federal Reserve to create the conditions under which FDR could rule by executive order as an imperialist. And of course, the fundamental changes that it brought about.
See: Book of the States, first edition 1933, union of governors, etc. The US became very socialist. the claim that it was fascist, is merely a bull shit story within the acceptable paradigm Lenin put down: good socialist are communist. Bad socialists are Fascists ....
While it is all the same thing.