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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel

      The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it.

      It also inspired the national socialist party of Germany to “redefine socialism” as fascist oligarchism.