Yep, some other I accept, therefore, the link that has been traditionally perceived between a period of capitalist crisis and the upsurge of fascism; but I believe that this link has to be seen as being mediated through an expansion of the popular base of the movement, and not as a mere conspiracy of the ruling oligarchy to thwart the growth of working class militancy that the crisis may engender.
Fascism seizes its opportunity at such a juncture not because it advances some alternative economic policy to the one being advanced by traditional bourgeois political formations, but by bringing about a discourse shift. Fascism is extraordinarily vague about its economic policies, or any other policies for that matter. It does not suggest new policies within the given terrain of discourse that all bourgeois parties share; it advances a completely new terrain of discourse.
"What we have to guard against Fascist movements in this sense are the diametrical opposite of socialist movements: while socialism seeks a solution to the crisis by breaking out of the political stasis through an economic program promising to transcend the phase of capitalism that has produced the crisis in the first place, fascism promises a break out of this stasis not through a concrete program but through extravagant unreason."
Unreason. Crisis feeds conspiracy too. That's why fascism and conspiracy enjoy each other's company so much.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”