Sorry if this isn’t the right community for this, but I need to ask this.
A few weeks ago before r/thedeprogram got banned I saw someone on it say something about fascism and the petite bourgeoisie. I don’t remember the exact wording but it was something like that the petite bourgeois command and establish fascism, and that fascism is the peak of the petite bourgeois. Sorry if this doesn’t give y’all much to work with as I don’t really remember the exact wording but I don’t really understand how it is especially the petite bourgeois and not just the entire bourgeoisie. Why the emphasis on the Petite bourgeois and not the entire class?
Thanks comrades!! ≽(•⩊ •マ≼
The petite bourgeoisie play an outsized role in fascism, but they are more like the footsoldiers. Fascism is essentially to capitalism in crisis what liberalism is to “pleasant” capitalism. When capitalism deteriorates materially, the petite bourgeoisie is pushed towards proletarianization, so the bourgeoisie stokes the hatred of the petite bourgeoisie towards other social groups, often along ethnic lines (though not exclusively).
The bourgeoisie uses the petite bourgeoisie to root out radicalized sections of the proletariat that have begun to organize against capital, which is the general proletarian response to decay. This is why fascism is inherently anti-communist.
There are people who know far more about fascism than me here, and I expect them to chime in, but this is how I understand it.