Fascism and Industry

Abstract

Central to all socialist theories of fascism is the insistence on the close relationship between fascism and industry. Conversely the main thrust of the attack on socialist theories has been to deny this relationship. The situation is made even more confusing by the fact that within the socialist camp there are wide differences of emphasis between those who stress the theoretical aspects of fascism, and those who are loath to move more than a few steps away from empiricism by making a few pious quotations from Das Kapital and who argue that too much theory has a disastrous effect on political practice. The delicate balance between theory and empiricism is all too easily tipped in the direction of empty theorising or the uncritical and unsorted compilation of facts.