Fascism and Big Business by Guerin. Daniel - 2004

New York: Pathfinder, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 364 pp. Light sunning to spine and edges of rear cover, else fine. A comprehensive study of fascism as it evolved in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Daniel Guerin's classic work, first published in French in 1936, shows how fascism, far from being an aberration of mass psychology, arose from the specific conditions of a social system in crisis. At first covertly, then increasingly openly, layers of big business financed and promoted fascist movements in Italy and Germany. Guerin contrasts the fascists' initially radical anticapitalist demagogy with their moves to shore up the capitalist profit system once they form the government.