AUT: Re: Very few libertarian marxist analyses of fascism....

["cwright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Actually, there is work by Johannes Agnoli, although little in English, such
as Fascism Without Revision among other books and articles (in Common Sense
I think, or is that the Bologna piece?).  Economy and Class Structure of
German Fascism by Alfred Sohn-Rethel, who is not exactly an autonomist but
is considered generally a libertarian Marxist.  The Situationist
International (through Debord's Society of the Spectacle) established an
analysis of fascism and Stalinism as what they called 'concentrated
spectacle'.  Marxist-humanism has an analysis of fascism connected to their
idea of 'the epoch of state capitalism' (I think that is the term).  "The
struggle against Fascism begins with the struggle against Bolshevism" by
Otto Rühle gives some of the Council communist analysis from 1939.  On
Fascism: A Note on Johannes Agnoli's Contribution by Werner Bonefeld gives
the English reader some idea of Agnoli's
work(http://www.rcci.net/globalizacion/2001/fg206.htm)  Also an article by
Sergio Bologna, "Nazism and The Working Class" at
http://www.emery.archive.mcmail.com/public_html/sergio_bologna/nazism.html
Of course, check Harry Cleaver's archive too.

For anarchism, see "The Failed Workers Councils and the Rise of Italian
Fascism", Rudolf Rockers' The Tragedy of Spain, Daniel Guerrin's stuff
(Fascism and Big Business; The Brown Plague.)  I am sure there is quite a
bit more, of course.

THE COUNCIL 'COMMUNISTS BETWEEN THE NEW DEAL AND FASCISM by Gabriella M.
Bonacchi has some interestng stuff.

That's most of what I know.

Cheers,
Chris
"In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the
false." - Debord
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From: "Michael Handelman" <mhandelman1@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: AUT: Very few libertarian marxist analyses of fascism....


> With the exception of Gilles Dauve
> (Fascism/Anti-Fascism), there is very little
> libertarian marxist work, that I know of, analyzing
> fascism.
>
> I'm reading "International Fascism: Theories, Causes,
> and the New Consensus". And the marxists they do put
> in, come from various authoritarian versions of
> marxism: Stalinist (Comintern), Trotskyist (Trotsky),
> a guy who roots his theory in Thalheimer, and
> structural marxists (Poulantza).
>
> These authoritarian marxists set up a useful strawman,
> for the liberal academics, that dominate this book.
> Why is there such little libertarian marxist analysis
> of fascism?
>
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