Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Chancellor Dolifuss first enlisted the aid of the Nazis, he must have been aware that it would mean the eventual abandonment of his own party for Fascism is a movement, which by its very nature excludes any other sort of political development. Consequently, the violent denunciation of Dollfuss's own party, the Christian Socialists, which has just been made by Prince Starhemberg, can come as no surprise to him, for when he resolved to crush the Socialists with the aid of the Heimwehr, he must have known that he could not temporize or adopt any half measures, that...
Whereas the Nazi fascism in Germany was built up around the industrial capitalism to keep the reins of power out of the proletariat's hands and the proletariat out of socialism, socialism taxed the individual capitalist out of existence in Vienna. Dollfuss, it seems, wishes to preserve agrarian capitalism without the opposition of Viennese socialists. The Austrian agrarian proletariat, the peasants, found the Maxist doctrine incomprehensible and impractical, and their overlords, the landed aristocracy, found it distinctly undesirable. From them Dollfuss has drawn his party, and since he has the benefit of the national army and the majority...
...inevitable outbreak of hostilities between the Dolifuss brand of Fascism and the Socialists in Austria has come with unusual violence. The tragic side in the situation is the destruction of the Socialist machine in the city of Vienna by the Heimwehr troops, for it signifies more than merely the end of another Socialist party; it is the finish of one of the most ambitious and successful attempts to found a society which was in every sense of the word progressive, and which represented the furthest advance yet made in improving the general condition of a whole people. In a city...
What will be the fate of America, long used to sectionalism and politics devoted to obscuring economic conflicts, when she is shoved into this new situation? Will it be the Scylla of Communism or the Charybdis of Fascism? Positing that the later Greek City-States occupied a position parallel except for size with the modern state, Professor Holcombe calls in Aristotle to tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate...
...centralization of authority, the government has a much firmer hold on the country than in any of the previous revolutions. Thus the present is not likely to give birth to any very radical movement--although hovering vaguely and almost unnoticed over the scene is the shadow of Fascism and dictatorship. NEMO