On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 03:30 AM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > > I hold to the view that it is the strength of the working class that makes > the ruling class turn to the lumpenproletariat to form an extra-legal army > to smash the working class totally. It was the predominance of labourism > and social democracy & Stalinism that rendered the mighty German working > class vulnerable to a Fascist onslaught.
German Hitlerism was not the same as Italian Fascism, where Catholic reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Italian worker's movement created a proletarian strata of Blackshirts. Likewise, in the US, it was working class whites that became the base of the Klan in response to Reconstruction and, later, the advances of Blacks at the time of World War I, particularly in regards to returning Black vets who argued they had fought in Europe and so were entitled to the same treatment as white vets. If we were to look for a US iteration of fascism that emerged at the same time as Italian fascism, it would be the 1919 Red Summer, which was occurring at the same time as the Palmer raids, the formation of the CPUSA, and the last gasps of the old IWW. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32213): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32213 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108359364/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
