Except for that bothersome little detail, discovered since the advent of computer voter analysis, that it was the petite bourgeoisie (middle class) in Germany that was the largest bloc of support for Hitler in his rise to power. It is the populist middle class alliance with a section of capitalist ruling elites that assists in crushing the working class.
-Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of joanna bujes
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:37 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: fascism/upward mobility
>
>
> At 04:11 PM 02/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > White men and the myth of upward mobility
> >
> >http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/02-02arch
> ive/k022002.html
>
> Yeah, I think this tells us more about the prospects of
> fascism in the
> twenty first century than anything else I've read on LBO so
> far. Let me try
> a definition:
>
> Fascism: the successful attempt (during a period of
> Capitalist crisis) to
> get the working class to identify with the ruling class via
> some shared
> national or ethnic "identity" -- which serves, of course, to
> conceal real
> class conflicts. As such, and not coincidentally, fascism may even
> represent itself to be anti-capitalist....for a while.
>
> Joanna B.
>
>