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Patriotism Dons the Black Shirt
Swing, Raymond Gram | April 10, 1935 issue

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Twice in eighteen years, once during the war, once after it, this country has seen a conceited attack on civil liberties such as is being made today. The first post-war campaign, like the present one, came in a period of economic depression, and then as prosperity returned, it frittered away. These depression experiences point the lesson that civil liberties are not the foundation of civilization but luxuries conceded by those in economic and political control only when they feel secure. The basis of civilization is primarily economic, and minor cultural privileges are not fundamental rights, capable of surviving a threat of economic change.

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CIVIL rights; NATIONALISM; PATRIOTISM; CIVILIZATION; FASCISM; UNITED States
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