Another ‘classic’ left-wing analysis of fascism is that which explains it essentially as an instrument of big capital to crush the revolution and the workers’ movement. Since today the workers’ movement is very much weakened and the revolutionary threat non-existent, big capital has no interest in supporting far-right movements and thus the risk of a brown offensive is non-existent. This is, once again, an economistic reading that does not take account of the autonomy of any political phenomenon – electors can, indeed, choose a party that does not have the big bourgeoisie’s backing – and one that seems to ignore the fact that big capital can accommodate to all sorts of political regimes without too much soul-searching. #righton
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:59:14 +0000
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