Monday, November 10, 2008

Fascism is a mass movement of the workers and allied classes to defend a subset of social elites within the working class

Fascism can be seen as an independent movement of the working class and as such the mass movement associated with it is the principal tool of that movement. So, for example, a German may have seen the Nazi party as a mechanism for making life in Germany better for German workers. Implicit in this the support is the belief than an imperial Germany would benefit German workers and that a fascist state was the ideal mechanism to create a German empire. Of course Nazis had good relations with many big businesses.

Fascism as a Judas goat movement meant to misdirect the anticapitalist prosocial potential of the working class revolution uses the mass movement as a weapon against other workers.
This can be seen in the Nazi destruction of all progressive, leftist and labor organzations as well as Naziism's suicidal determination to destroy the Soviet Union, something international capital couldn't help but support. Scapegoating national groups or religious targets misdirects the struggle of the proletariat against capitalist rule and divides the working class.

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