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Marx never predicted that in late stage capitalism, the ruling bourgeoisie identifies as socialist while the working class supports capitalism
Transcript:
Marx never predicted that in late stage capitalism, the ruling bourgeoisie identifies as socialist while the working class supports capitalism
Great post!
Those poll results are eye-opening.
Considering how the fascist leaders themselves haven’t been exactly the elite type or at least not do not come across as such and with my experience of the phenomenon from real life, tv shows and education, I assumed they were in contest with the communists to accumulate as much of the disgruntled poor masses as possible, with both groups trying to convince the masses who to take up arms against, giving the masses the option to either ethnic warfare or class warfare.
But it seems for at least the Mussolini case, it’s more supported by the rich than the poor.
All anticommunist politicians have struggled to get the support, or at least the tolerance, of the working masses; they can’t have their wage slaves amassing against them, after all. The Fascists were masters as concern trolling, and Michael Parenti observed in Dirty Truths how after the short twentieth century, ‘it became clear to many conservatives that now was the time to cast off all restraint and sock it to the employee class. The competition for their hearts and minds was over.’ Of course, anticommunists’ success varies widely by date and area, and when concessions and concern trolling don’t work, that’s when they roll up their sleeves and resort to more brute force tactics.
It is true that anticommunists like Mussolini and Schicklgruber started out from humble backgrounds, but with Fascism’s promotion to institutional power came the privileges of upper‐class life. They still had a duty to keep the poor pacified, but their interests lied first and foremost with their upper‐class compatriots; everybody else was secondary.