ABSTRACT
Fascism accepts one of Marx’s insights into the nature of capitalism: by being the class with a material investment in the overthrow of capitalism, the working class constitutes the revolutionary threat to capitalism. Revolution can be thought of as both process and moment, where a process of revolutionary social transformation is accompanied by moments of revolutionary political change. The nature of “fascist socialism” or “national socialism” therefore needs to be addressed. One of the reasons why this issue has been downplayed in some of the recent literature on fascism is the primacy of politics found in fascist theory and practice. For fascism, Marxism treats the political as an epiphenomenon of the economic, while liberalism treats it as mere night-watchman, overseeing a self-regulating civil society. The fascist political revolution is the alternative to social revolution; as such it is equally counter-revolutionary.
