“The working class disappoints the middle classes by showing itself incapable of finding a way out of the crisis. In addition, it exasperates the middle classes by its day-to-day economic struggles, which are too fragmentary and timid to even maintain past gains, but which are quite sufficient to maintain a state of instability without curing any of the ills of society as a whole. So the middle classes do an about-face and blame not only the trusts, but also the workers for their economic stagnation. The organized Right then only has to exploit this resentment against the workers. But the traditional bourgeois parties, such as the Nationalist Party in Italy or the German National Party in Germany, can hardly play this role since their avowed program is preservation of the status quo. So the bourgeoisie changes its methods. It disguises itself and subsidizes a political formation of a new kind -fascism. Fascism, far from declaring itself in the service of the existing order, claims to seek its overthrow. The better to dupe the middle classes, it professes to be anti-capitalist, even revolutionary. Thus capitalism accomplishes the tour de force of channeling for its own benefit the revolt of the middle classes, which should have been directed against it, and of enrolling its own victims in organizations whose real aim is the defense of its privileges!”

-Daniel Guerin, Fascism and Big Business