I don't remember what Guerin's line is, but I remember that several years ago Louis P. and I went around on the question of Big Business and Naziism over on pen-l. Perhaps there is no disagreement on this now, but I would reiterate that it is a myth that Big Business was "behind Hitler." There was a small group of leading Big Businessmen who supported Hitler early on. But most preferred more traditional conservative formations and only got on after Hitler came to power. Of course then most of them supported him quite fully, with a few notable exceptions, some of whom ended up in camps and/or dead.
Despite his original base in Catholic Bavaria, Hitler's strongest base of support during the crucial early 1930s was resolutely rural Protestant and petit bourgeois. Barkley Rosser On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:43:01 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> wrote:
> Dennis Redmond:
> >The point is that the same social forces which created bourgeois-liberal
> >republics also drove the creation of fascism.
>
> Dennis, please try to find the time to read Daniel Guerin's "Fascism and
> Big Business." Adorno-Horkheimer might have interesting things to say on
> culture, alienation, etc., but on the origins of Nazism, they are all wet.
>
> Louis Proyect
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu