The Origins and Development of Fascism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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One thing is certain: Social Democracy has failed lamentably in every case in which it has been actually confronted by Fascism. That failure lies in the means used to carry out its programme. As Mowrer asks, What can be said for a republic [under Social Demo cratic rule] that allows its laws to be interpreted by monarchist judges, its government to be administered by old-time functionariesbrought up in fidelity to the old regime; that watches passively while reactionary school teachers and professors teach its children to despise the present freedom in favour of a glorified feudal past; that permits and encourages the revival of the militarism which was chiefly respon sible for the country's previous humiliation In Austria Social Democracy proved just as egregious a failure.5 In 1919 it could have socialized the very pivot of Austrian industry but it failed to do so. It socialized some of the luxuries of life but none of the necessities and eventually lost out to Clerical Fascism because of its own decency. Bauer, its leader, was a fine theorist and an able debater, but utterly helpless in the face of unexpected realities. In 1933 a bold stroke would have ended the Dollfuss menace to Social Democracy but Bauer hesitated, negotiated, and lost. Too late he saw it and confessed: It was a mistake - _the most fatal of all our mistakes. And the story of his incompetence on the very eve of Dollfuss's massacre of Vienna workers is the tale of an even more tragic blunder.

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