>>2528311A sclerotic, ad-hoc, and unstable response to imperialist decay that historically appeared during the advanced interwar crisis of several imperialist nations, three of which were technical victors of the Great War. The program of the fascists was one of “national rejuvenation” as a means of saving their imperialist national capitals; the program pursued consisted of agrarian and industrial cartelization, the terroristic attack upon all workers organizations, the smashing of all German unions, the formal and de facto end of bourgeois democracy (democracy for the bourgeoisie) to produce a unitary party overcoming the fractious nature of an internally competitive class to allow for an aggressive reorientation towards both the proletarian enemy at home and the imperialist rivals abroad, a program of economic rationalization led by the state, that is, mass mechanization, the consolidation of economic functions into the state, not, say, by nationalization as would happen under “socialism” (Stalinism or social democracy) but by turning the Nazi Party itself into constant regulating pinkertons with seats on the corporate boards and usually ensuring owners and executive officers were loyal party comrades, so that is, a symbol wherein the bourgeoisie are told what to produce and when yet profits accumulate to that class as it was before and their hierarchical position within production is maintained, in the Nazi example the failures of these policies (they failed for all three) were most evident, so additional measures to end the economic crisis were initiated, including mass prison labor, compulsory labor for the unemployed, mass arrests (all amounting to state directed slavery) and eventually international conquest as an endless funnel for investment, means for acquiring plunder, and means for the acquisition of additional labor-power to exploit; in terms of state backed slavery, as stated, the economic crisis never abated, not even through the war, a slave functions as fixed capital within this system, as such it comes with costs, namely the costs of maintaining a slave as a living human capable of labour. The Nazi solution to this was annihilation through work and the outright murder of those who could not be worked to death in such a fashion, such as the pregnant, very young children, and the elderly; luckily for the Nazis this could be justified as
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