A degraded working class can turn equally to fascism or communism

Evidence

I felt that Bigger, an American product, a native son of this land, carried within him the potentialities of either Communism or Fascism… . Whether he’ll follow some gaudy, hysterical leader who’ll promise rashly to fill the void in him, or whether he’ll come to an understanding with the millions of his kindred fellow workers under trade-unions or revolutionary guidance depends upon the future drift of events in America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1373

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s overall reading goal: Wright identifies a contingent fork in the tradition’s history — a critical junction where the movement’s future depended on political guidance, not inevitability. — connects to: Progress under capitalism turns into regression and fascism — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 25; Marxism holds that capitalism’s collapse could end in barbarism, not only communism. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 161; Authoritarian workers could transfer loyalty from socialism to Nazism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 712 (+1 more)