What if: the Business Plot (White House Putsch) of 1934

Wait, if i am correct, was general Butler a Stalinist agent.

Dickstein, who ran the commission that investigated this, was a known KGB agent. Butler himself was a Hard-Left activist, but I don't know if that translated to Sovietphillia.
 
Dickstein, who ran the commission that investigated this, was a known KGB agent. Butler himself was a Hard-Left activist, but I don't know if that translated to Sovietphillia.
Well even if this was only a small talk by some business people, it surprise me that some of them admired fascism while several years later they would earn a lor of money fighting it.
 
What was Butler's history as a hard left activist?

The big things I know of are: he was considered "unreliable" by his superiors in WW1 (not sure of the context of this), he was a hard-core Prohibition supporter (a Progressive cause at the time), he vocally supported and participated in the Bonus Army, and he spent most of the early 1930s giving speeches denouncing big business for war profiteering and crypto-fascism. The last is most significant (the first being hard to judge without context, and the others being not too particularly outside the Overton Window). From his Wikipedia article (standard disclaimer about Wikipedia applies):
He became widely known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States.

In December 1933, Butler toured the country with James E. Van Zandt to recruit members for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). He described their effort as "trying to educate the soldiers out of the sucker class." In his speeches he denounced the Economy Act of 1933, called on veterans to organize politically to win their benefits, and condemned the FDR administration for its ties to big business. The VFW reprinted one of his speeches with the title "You Got to Get Mad" in its magazine Foreign Service. He said: "I believe in...taking Wall St. by the throat and shaking it up."[57] He believed the rival veterans' group the American Legion was controlled by banking interests. On December 8, 1933, he said: "I have never known one leader of the American Legion who had never sold them out—and I mean it."[58]
There's also some stuff there about him writing articles for Socialist magazines explicitly denouncing capitalism, but that looks like that happened after the alleged Plot.
 
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