American Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming alliances between the corporate-private realm and the state-public realm. These same alliances made FDR and subsequent political figures rethink the direction they wanted to take American democracy. Through a careful analysis of the Associated Farmers of California, Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar and Brian Kulik show how the AFC formed positions in direct alliance with fascist ideas, but also why these ideas resonate with so many people even to this day. The analysis presented in American Fascism and the New Deal will be of particular interest to sociologists, especially social movement theorists; Chicana/o studies scholars; political scientists; business ethicists; and historians.

By Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar and Brian W. Kulik

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Defining Fascism
Chapter Two: The Pro-Industrial Movement in California
Chapter Three: The Trends of the Times
Chapter Four: The rise of the Pro-Industrial Movement in California and the Associated Farmers of California, Inc., 1933-34
Chapter Five: Reorganization of the Associated Farmers, 1935-37
Chapter Six: Vigilantism and the Pro-Industrial Movement, 1936-38
Chapter Seven: The AF Goes National, 1938-39
Chapter Eight: The Decline of the AF
Chapter Nine: American Fascism
Chapter Ten: Theories of Social Movements, the State, and Corporate Behavior
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors