War solidarity inspired a proto-fascist national socialism bridging capital and labor

Evidence

Prompted by the experience of national solidarity during the war and in the war economy, he favoured a form of organizational national socialism whose task would be to produce a sense of national community between capital and labour. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 80

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to debates about the origins of “national socialism” as a pre-Nazi intellectual project rather than purely Hitler’s invention. — connects to: World War I revealed nationalist loyalties overriding international worker solidarity; World War I nationalism destroyed international worker solidarity and the Second International — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 981; Groups reattached war-cultivated solidarity to new enemies after the old one vanished — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1324 (+1 more)

Broader Connections