TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen

L4sBot@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen

Qualanqui@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 1 year ago

And they would have gotten away with it too if Smedley Butler hadn’t blown the whistle after they approached him to lead the coup’s forces.

mohKohn@kbin.social · 1 year ago

Going to take a moment to plug a great biography of him I read, Gangsters of Capitalism Butler was a very complicated person, much like the rest of the Quakers.

I do feel like saying they would’ve gotten away with it is perhaps a tad overstating their chances

sadreality@kbin.social · 1 year ago

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

He behaved honorably during this plot and outside of it.

One of the first military leaders to start calling out the overreach of business elites in the US.

TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen

TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen

The Conspiratorial Business Plot of 1933