Fascism: The Peak of Imperialism
The ideology that is often described as fervent nationalism is also rooted in a fundamental development of capitalism.
Following the end of World War I in Germany, ideological groups began to grow in opposition to the unstable liberal democracy that was in place given the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II. Before the full establishment of the Weimar Republic, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) violently suppressed the workers’ uprising led by prominent communist theorists and politicians Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. This would eventually lead to severe hostilities between the SPD and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the following years.
The growth of fascism occurred primarily in the 1920s and 1930s, following the creation of the The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat, or more commonly, the Fascist Manifesto. In Italy, strikes led by the proletariat were becoming more and more prevalent, given the economic crises of the time. The fascists in Italy, led by Benito Mussolini, were opposed to these strikes and movements, instead preferring to align themselves with the industrial enterprises within the country.
In Germany, the communists and the Nazis were gaining lots of momentum after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The majority of…
