Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 20:15:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
To: James Miller <jamiller-AT-igc.apc.org>
cc: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: fascism, etc.


On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, James Miller wrote:
> 
>    Louis is thinking that fascism is very risky for the
> bourgeoisie. But what choice did the German capitalists
> have in the late 1920s? Hitler's movement grew spontaneously
> as a result of the particular features of the crisis in
> that part of the world. The capitalists started to pay the
> Nazis' bills as they increasingly saw no other hope for a
> solution. No, they didn't like it. Yes, some of them tried
> to get rid of Hitler at various points. But he was their
> savior, their knight in tarnished armor. It was Hitler who
> finally made the workers go back to work.

Louis: I agree with this description. What does this have to do with the 
Buchanan campaign, I wonder? Why does the Militant now refer to Buchanan 
as an ultrarightist, as Jon Flanders pointed out? 


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