An Economic Crisis Is the Mother of Fascism
In return, fascism defends big money
In the movies, fascism is a group of bad guys in dark uniforms screaming and killing around. They are Hitler’s boys who hate Jews but get what they deserve in the end. Therefore, we can conclude that fascism was a thing of the past that finished with the Nuremberg trials against the Nazis (1945–46).
But this is far from the truth since the traces of fascism still thrive under different names and forms.
Still, we can prevent this kind of political system from controlling the lives of its citizens if we go back in history and learn.
Fascism defends the existing order
As German political scientist Franz Leopold Neumann defines in his book Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933–1944, fascism arises when big money and the state cooperate on the same goal.
Neumann explains that during the 1930s and 1940s, fascism in Europe was a response to the communist revolution in the Soviet Union (1917–1923). Mussolini’s Fascist Party used Italian fear of another Bolshevik Revolution (that started in Saint Petersburg in October 1917) and accused its antagonist — the Italian Socialist Party — of being a sock puppet of Stalin’s Soviet Communist Party…
