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...Strachey, who analyzed the political evolution of the British in "The Coming Struggle for Power," has here extended his scope to an examination of the bases upon which Fascism and its success in Europe rest. For him the Fascist movement is, wholly and unequivocally, an attempt to preserve Capitalism by violence. To support this view, he has outlined once more the lines along which the class struggle is waged, through "the century of the great hope" to the present period of frustration and despair. It is his thesis that the progressive parties, Labour in England and the Social Democrats...
...late as 1931, Mr. Strachey was a follower of Sir Oswald Mosley, the avowed leader of Fascism in England, and his knowledge of British social conditions is deep and intimate. From it he argues that desperate capitalism will use the Fascist instrument in Great Britain, and he can see no reason to suppose that it will not be similarly applied in the United States. Nor, if his analysis of the instrument be correct, is there any reason to suppose so. What has made capitalism, in the words of G.K. Chesterton "not only a discredited ethic but a bankrupt business...
...solution offered by Mr. Strachey is obvious enough; when interests are too vital for compromise, each side must mobilize its forces and see the struggle through to its conclusion. If the workers are disunited, and the present diffusion of ownership has militated against their unity, Fascism must be the outcome. Mr. Strachey believes that through Fascism the workers will be united for revolution; and though their work will be rendered difficult by the Fascist abolition of the instruments of democracy, the victory must ultimately be theirs. But an ultimate victory may easily become a Pyrrhie...
...Menace of Fascism, by John Strachey...
Today's generation is beginning to look back on the Victorian Age with a kinder eye than its fathers did. The late Lytton Strachey et al. laid the 19th Century's haunting ghost with many a mocking exorcism; succeeding scholars are now finding a sympathetic task in recreating its soul. A sign of the times, this latest study of Poet-Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his earnest men is a credit not only to its authoress' heart but to her scholarship and her mind. Poor Splendid Wings got the pre-eminence over 800 other...