Jonah Goldberg Recommend this article  In 2008, I wrote a book
called "Liberal Fascism." That title came from H.G. Wells, one
of the most important socialist writers in the English language.
He believed, as did his fellow Fabian socialists, that Western
democratic capitalism had outlived its usefulness.  What was
needed was a new, bold, forward-thinking system run by experts
with access to the most modern techniques. For Wells, the label
for such a system mattered less than the imperative that we
implement a revolution-from-above. He admired how the Germans,
Italians and Russians were getting things done. In 1932 he
proposed calling his revolutionary movement "enlightened Nazism"
or "liberal fascism."  Wells was hardly alone. Such arguments
were being made in all the Western democracies, under a thousand
different banners. Most progressives rejected terms like
"fascist" or "Communist," but they still touted foreign
tyrannies as superior to the outmoded democratic capitalism of
the 19th century.  Lincoln Steff