Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism Quotes

“The dictatorial power of the Nazis was the blind power of the unchangeability and the inner contradictions of the fascist path which they pursued. It could be threatened by the bourgeoisie only in the purely theoretical event that from outside the country (from heaven perhaps!), the entire financial and economic deficit of German capitalism were wiped out, the contradictions removed and the position of the German bourgeoisie re-normalized. For then the fascist party would not only be dispensable, it would actually have to be removed speedily for the renormalization to succeed. We can thus see that the party derives its power not from its own strength or from any original political concept or line of its own but solely by virtue of the unavoidable predicament of the bourgeoisie, trapped between the profit and the loss calculations of its own class interest; as this predicament intensifies, so does the power of the Nazis. And the Nazis can hardly do better in their own interests than to employ the maximum possible ignorance and stupidity. The more bourgeois china is broken, the better fares the Party, the more inextricably is the bourgeoisie tied to its protection racketeers and the more noiselessly it has to abdicate lever after lever of its economic power to the Party. The black of the fascist cloth is the black of the ink into which the bourgeoisie has fallen. The dialectic of fascism is uncontrollable.”
― Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism