The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization to be used in a coup d'état to overthrow President of the US Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of the organization and eventual Dictator in Chief.

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Jonathan M. Katz’s new book, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire

The Business Plot Smedley D. Butler, Anti-Democratic Dissidence, and the Recession of the American Right 1932-1936 By Grant Hamilton Stone August 2021

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