My contribution to the Socialist Unity debate on why left strategy of protesting against BNP appearing on media is correct!

I have started re-reading Willam Shirer’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”. In chapter 1 entiltled “Birth of the Third Reich” under chapter section “The budding ideas of Adolph Hitler” on pages 23-24 Shirer quotes Hilter stating that his experience of Vienna prior to World War 1 demonstrated a middle class plebian movement could only come to power by being usefual to an Imperialist ruling class. This is a liberal work correctly recording Fascist strategy.


The only way to prevent a ruling class attempting a Fascist seizure of power is by showing that it risks a Socialist revolution. As Louise Whittle points out the historic role of Fascism is to destroy the workers’ mass organisations. Ernest Mandel argued that days before Hitler became Chancellor the German Ruling Class tested to see how workers reacted by the Nazis demonstrating outside the head-quarters of the German Communist Party (KPD). Mandel argued if the KPD had resisted then the German Ruling Class would not have gambled with granting political power to Fascism. Shirer ponts out in page 24 that Hitler worked throughout January 1933 to win the ruling class over to grantig powar to the Fascists.


The Liberal Bourgeois strategy is two-fold by weakening Fascism, believing that can undermine them. This is a delusion which Gary Younge argues correctly is impossible where Capitalist decay breads this degenerate movement. As Younge argued Fascism can only be undermined by the working class challenging Capitalism effecively. A second dimension of Liberal Bourgeois strategy is to keep options open where Fascism may be useful to crush a revolutionary threat by workers or in a position to destroy the organised working class saving declining profits. That strategy is more medium to long-term. This is why it is fundamentally wrong to stop protesting when a BBC decision to invite BNP members appearing cannot be reserved.