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“Considering these precursors, a debate has arisen about which country spawned the earliest fascist movement. France is a frequent candidate. Russia has been proposed. Hardly anyone puts Germany first. It may be that the earliest phenomenon that can be functionally related to fascism is American: the Ku Klux Klan. Just after the Civil War, some former Confederate officers, fearing the vote given to African Americans in 1867 by the Radical Reconstructionists, set up a militia to restore an overturned social order. The Klan constituted an alternate civic authority, parallel to the legal state, which, in the eyes of the Klan’s founders, no longer defended their community’s legitimate interests. By adopting a uniform (white robe and hood), as well as by their techniques of intimidation and their conviction that violence was justified in the cause of their group’s destiny,88 the first version of the Klan in the defeated American South was arguably a remarkable preview of the way fascist movements were to function in interwar Europe. It should not be surprising, after all, that the most precocious democracies—the United States and France—should have generated precocious backlashes against democracy.”

“Of this economic Stoicism of the Classical world the exact antithesis is Socialism, meaning thereby not Marx's theory but Frederick William I's Prussian practice which long prededed Marx and will displace him – the socialism […] that comprehends and cares for permanent economic relations, trains the individual in his duty to the whole, and glorifies hard work as an affirmation of Time and Future.”

“The real and true leader does not hold a special status or contradict its character. If he keeps the distance in any way or shape If he says things, that don't exist If, he brings you in a destructive direction If he what promises does not keep his words If he put you naked in the sky, and self in a comfortable tent If he gives you, the false hopes than the practical helping He is just an opportunist, a cheater, and a liar, but not a leader.”

“The real and true leader does not hold a special status or contradict his character If he keeps the distance in any way or shape If he says things that don't exist If he brings you in a destructive direction If he what promises does not keep his words If he put you naked in the sky, and self in a comfortable tent If he gives you false hopes other than the practical helping He is just an opportunist, a cheater, and a liar, but not a leader”

“The real and true leader does not hold a special status or contradict his character If he keeps the distance in any way or shape If he says things that don't exist If he brings you in a destructive direction If he what promises does not keep his words If he put you naked in the sky and yourself in a comfortable tent If he gives you false hopes other than the practical helping He is just an opportunist, a cheater, and a liar, but not a leader.”