Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children.

I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.

I want to begin by thanking Charlie Fabian and all of you who have sent in materials for Charlie

to work up and to help us plan our programs. You can and please do continue to send us what

you have, Charlie.info-338 at gmail.com.

And likewise, our recommendation that if you like this program and the economic analyses

we present, then there's a companion volume that you will find useful called understanding

capitalism, which begins with these kinds of segments, but goes into them

much more systematically and much more deeply than we have the time to do here.

It's available as all of our books are at our website.

Today is going to be a special program. We're not going to have short segments. We're

not going to have a guest to interview. Instead, I've prepared a presentation that responds

to something many of you have asked me to do, plus something which the literature exploding

all around us, articles, books, newspaper stories,

videos obviously show an interest. It has to do with whether the category of fascism

applies to what is going on in the United States today.

On the 14th of June, there were demonstrations all over the country.

Many of them carried signs opposing fascism in the United States in one form or another.

So let us do this in a reasonable, thoughtful way. So I'm

going to call today's program how far does the fascism analogy work? Does it illuminate?

And to what extent what is going on in the United States today?

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