ABSTRACT
The economic factor is a crisis that puts the reactionary classes in the bulls-eye of the meltdown. Often, there is hyperinflation or deflation, along with extreme credit crises, that hit small businesses and small farmers the hardest. They risk losing their businesses and their land and falling from the 'middle classes' into total bankruptcy. "So these groups become desperate and look to authoritarian revolutionary leaders-wild-eyed Far Right populists outside the corporate capitalist establishment who promise to save them by restoring their place in the traditional order of things". The ghost explained, particularly if the mainstream capitalist political order collapses. The Weimar Syndrome emerges when the political system becomes dysfunctional and proves utterly incapable of managing the economic crisis. A good example, "the ghost said", is the collapse of both the main Left and Right parties in 1920s Germany. The ruling Left Social Democratic Party had no serious economic agenda to create jobs, stabilize the currency, or remake the economy.
