ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a conversation between Karl Marx and the Ghost about Retro-Alternatives and the Reactionary Classes. First, the ghost said, "capitalism has always posed a threat to certain social classes, which it threatens to make extinct. In Marx day, it was the small peasants, whose land was being taken over by industry and industrial agriculture. "The bourgeois order has become a vampire that sucks out its blood and throws them into the alchemist's cauldron of capital". The author says that capitalism always creates reactionary classes, groups seeking to return to or 'restore' earlier traditional societies existing before today's capitalism. In the twentieth century, new reactionary classes have emerged, seduced by new promises of Empire and old promises of traditional values and national honor. The extreme danger of these classes became apparent in the rise of fascism in the 1920s in Germany and in the rise of the Far Right conservative movements in the United States are living with today.
