Nazism and the working class - Sergio Bologna

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Italian autonomist Sergio Bologna discusses the rise of Nazism and its relationship to the German working class. (http://libcom.org/library/nazism-and-working-class-sergio-bologna)

[blake 3:17]

Context, please and thank you?

Has anyone here anyone seen reproductions of Signal Magazine? It was the Nazi equivalent of Life magazine and it is kind of amazing. I inherited a compilation of the English language edition and it is very much a popular appeal to the project of Nazi Germany. Full employment, beautiful Aryan babes, the virtues of walks in the mountains.

The fact that there was a working class base to both German and Italian fascism is a very serious problem for socialists and anarchists.

There's empirical work that the author discusses, but there's also more theoretical work coming from Nietzschean perspectives that I think actually addresses the problems more effectively.

[kashkin]

I can't say much on the Nazis, but the fascists* in Japan in the 1930s had a small but increasingly powerful working class base organised into 'Japanist' and anti-union unions. Their increasing power stemmed not from the fact that increasing numbers of the working class supported them but from the fact that traditional unions were placed on the back foot during the 1930-32 depression, though labour struggles did surge back after 1932 until around 1936, these were largely defensive in nature and victory became rarer. Also, the fact that the Social Masses Party (the major social democratic party at the time) completely and utterly sold out and sided with the imperial administration helped the right-wing unions gain power.

* Depends on your definition of fascism. Arguably fascism in Japan had no ideological base as it had in Germany and Italy, at least none beyond the usual 'defend the emperor and country'.

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Context, please and thank you?

Has anyone here anyone seen reproductions of Signal Magazine? It was the Nazi equivalent of Life magazine and it is kind of amazing. I inherited a compilation of the English language edition and it is very much a popular appeal to the project of Nazi Germany. Full employment, beautiful Aryan babes, the virtues of walks in the mountains.

The fact that there was a working class base to both German and Italian fascism is a very serious problem for socialists and anarchists.

There's empirical work that the author discusses, but there's also more theoretical work coming from Nietzschean perspectives that I think actually addresses the problems more effectively.
Actually,what Bologna says is that the working class was the only social power that resisted Hitler even after its rise to power.

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bump. cause it totaly worth it.