Manning Marable on how small business gives impetus to #fascism:
“Historically, within advanced capitalist societies it is the sector of petty capital that is often more inclined toward authoritarianism than large capital. Reactionary political movements within parliamentary democracies tend to develop their strongest support … among elements of the most economically insecure and marginal stratum within the capitalist class. Hitler’s astonishingly rapid growth in Weimar Germany came not merely from the anti-Semitism of many German unemployed workers but also from the small shopkeepers and merchants of that country. In both 1976 and 1980, finance capital was extremely reserved about Ronald Reagans candidacy for the Republican nomination …. The economic demands of day-to-day entrepreneurial struggle tend, in every capitalist society, to push the politics of small businesspersons to the right.”
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