Capitalist support for fascism....

[Peter Kilander]

Here's Doug in Wall Street, pg. 303, quoting Hitler:
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"Thus, the task of the state toward capital was comparatively simple and
clear; it only had to make certain that capital remain the handmaiden of the
state and not fancy itself the mistress of the nation. This point of view
could then be defined between two restrictive limits: preservation of a
solvent, national, and independent economy on the one hand, assistance of
the social rights of the workers on the other.... The sharp seperation of
stock exchange capital from the national economy offered the possibility of
opposing the internationalization of the German economy without at the same
time menacing the foundations of an independent national self-maintenance by
a struggle against all capital. The development of Germany was much too
clear in my eyes for me not to know that the hardest battle would have to be
fought, not against hostile nations, but against international capital."
That was Hitler (1943, pp. 209, 213), in Mein Kampf. One should always be
careful of critiques of finance that stop short of being critiques of
capital -- especially ones that focus on internationalization as an evil in
itself.1
(note)1.Obviously, capitalist internationalization, as practiced by
multinational corporations, is something to be criticized. But purely
localist critiques that view cosmopolitanism itself as dangerous are tinged
with xenophobia, and frequently sentimentalize pre-existing local
hierarchies out of existence.