Jews were the scapegoat for capitalist immiseration. He went from being the hero of the middle class to the saviour of the ruling class.Īnti-Semitism was the deadly alternative Hitler offered to distract workers from the reality of capitalism. Hitler could only manage that by imprisoning the organised leadership of the working class. Cutting real wages by 50% was one way of doing this. The Great Depression saw major sections of the German ruling class turn to Hitler as the only way to restore their profit rates. The Nazis began locking up the social democrats a little later. In the case of the Communists, this was in the first week of coming to power.
It was Communists, social democrats and unionists he locked up. Yet the main target of his first concentration camps was the left. With Hitler, the "othering" of Jews was an important glue to bind together his forces and supporters before and after he came to power. We see those developments again in Australia with Reclaim Australia, at least, supportive of One Nation and its ideas, while at the same time, Hanson’s Parliamentary representatives mostly appearing to be small business people rocked by years of market pressures. I argued that because its base was small business and workers in less unionised regional and rural areas, One Nation had the potential to become a classic fascist movement supported by an economically distressed middle class and organised gangs from the "lower" classes. Like Hitler, One Nation employs conspiracy theories to create divisions and fuel the rise of fascism in Australia, says John Passant.īACK IN 1998, I wrote an article for the Canberra Times arguing that One Nation was an organisation that had the potential to become fascist.
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