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Look, I'm sorry, the idea that there was this great working class rebellion against Nazism that was somehow crushed, immediately forming huge pro-Nazi parades, politics and armies, is bogus. Where was the German underground if there was so much working class resistance? Consider how much of Peru has been under marshal law and for how long. There is still a PCP. The idea that all the Communists were wiped out and that scared the rest into hysterical Nazi enthusiasm is silly. Where were the cheering crowds for the Allied advance? This was not Vichy France, where bourgeois collaborators ran roughshod over a loyal populace. This was Germany, thoroughly Nazi Germany.
Were German soldiers fragging their lieutenants and making for Switzerland? Were German soldiers selling arms to the resistance? There were plenty of working class Germans in the trenches and on the tanks, where was their working class loyalty? They were on the *offensive*, you might remember. When the Allies were pushing the Germans out of Western Europe, there were ample opportunities for German soldiers to surrender and desert. Italian troops did it. What the hell was wrong with those nice working-class German boys?
As for Nazism and capitalism, the point is that capitalism relies on the contract. Nazism completely undermined the primacy of the contract. Nazism did not strengthen the legal relationships that create capitalism, it overran them. Capitalism is not formal slavery or feudalism. Capitalism is hegemony through (guess what) capital, not the military. Why is the military subordinate to the civilian governments in the advanced capitalist countries? Is that an oversight? James Heartfield writes "the priority of the rights of the state against individual capitalists is endemic to all capitalist societies" and it just isn't true. That's what rights are all about, including property rights. The entire point of the bourgeois/capitalist revolutions was to put certain bourgeois rights beyond the reach of the crown. Nazism *re*-imposed the absolute power of the crown in a post-feudal context.
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