please help with 1920s class war materials

[Luc]

not sure whether to put in history, here or somewhere so, sorry if it's in the wrong forum :lol:

For my history class we have to write an essay about why or why not the 1920s were the "roaring twenties". I was thinking of doing it about class war:) but I don't know much :(

I heard Hitler sent a letter to capitalists saying his anti-capitalist words were just empty rhetoric... can anyone point me to a link to this letter (coudln't find it myself) if it is archived anywhere or anyother "proof" of capitalist propping up (financing them) of fascists (fascism as counterevolution proof I guess :unsure:)

also info on labor history around 1920s (any country) and about the red scare from class war perspective would be very helpful and much aprecciated:)

thank you for your time:)

edit: It's due April 10th I think

[NewLeft]

In an attempt to obtain financial contributions from industrialists, Hitler wrote a pamphlet in 1927 entitled The Road to Resurgence. Only a small number of these pamphlets were printed and they were only meant for the eyes of the top industrialists in Germany. The reason that the pamphlet was kept secret was that it contained information that would have upset Hitler's working-class supporters. In the pamphlet Hitler implied that the anti-capitalist measures included in the original twenty-five points of the NSDAP programme would not be implemented if he gained power.

Hitler began to argue that "capitalists had worked their way to the top through their capacity, and on the basis of this selection they have the right to lead." Hitler claimed that national socialism meant all people doing their best for society and posed no threat to the wealth of the rich. Some prosperous industrialists were convinced by these arguments and gave donations to the Nazi Party, however, the vast majority continued to support other parties, especially the right-wing German Nationalist Peoples Party (DNVP). http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nsdap.html

American corporations and Hitler:
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/51/pauwels.html

For class war, start with IWW history.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/unions/iww/timeline.htm
http://www.iww.org/en/history/chronology

Are you looking for fascist history too?

Mussolini played up to his financial backers at first by transferring a number of industries from public to private ownership. But by the 1930's he had begun moving back to the opposite extreme of rigid governmental control of industry. A great deal of money was spent on public works. But the economy suffered from his exaggerated attempt to make Italy self-sufficient. There was too much concentration on heavy industry, for which Italy lacked the resources. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mussolini.html

Canadian Bolsheviks..
http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Publications/pubs.htm

[LeftAtheist]

There's a work I've seen by Henry Ashby Turner Jr. of Yale University entitled "Emil Kirdorf and the Nazi Party" which mentions this pamphlet, but having done a quick check online, I can't find a free version beyond a preview anywhere.

Here it is, for the record: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=601B92530E46AC90A8C747A 093E243CE.journals?fromPage=online&aid=2855584

I did the USA 1918-54 for my History A-Level last year, so I might be of a little assistance to you generally.

[Luc]

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nsdap.html

American corporations and Hitler:
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/51/pauwels.html

For class war, start with IWW history.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/unions/iww/timeline.htm
http://www.iww.org/en/history/chronology

Are you looking for fascist history too?
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mussolini.html

Canadian Bolsheviks..
http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Publications/pubs.htm

:w00t: awsome thank you exactly what I was looking for in relation to fascism :w00t:

[Luc]

There's a work I've seen by Henry Ashby Turner Jr. of Yale University entitled "Emil Kirdorf and the Nazi Party" which mentions this pamphlet, but having done a quick check online, I can't find a free version beyond a preview anywhere.

Here it is, for the record: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=601B92530E46AC90A8C747A 093E243CE.journals?fromPage=online&aid=2855584

I did the USA 1918-54 for my History A-Level last year, so I might be of a little assistance to you generally.

thanks :) I'll see if I can find it

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Read Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes. Probably the easiest thing to read from a Marxist perspective.