Can the fascist vampire rise again?
It is a moot point whether the German capitalists would want to see fascism again. In the end they had let a lunatic genie out of the bottle and Germany was embroiled in a war it could not hope to win. But then they had mixed feelings about it in the first place and were impelled to support it out of fear of socialist revolution. There is no evidence, either, that any significant section of the Australian ruling class wants to see an authoritarian, extreme right wing or fascist solution to the crisis here, at least at the present time. For one thing, the Left is presently so weak as to present no threat. Also, they are making vast profits. Yet, despite this and perhaps because of it, the extreme right will continue to grow. Ominously, it may even take some of the Left’s traditional constituency – we should not forget that Hanson and Campbell ran as right wing independents in formerly safe Labor seats, and won. There is also evidence to suggest that a disturbingly large number of blue c
