For Life , Liberty and Property the Nature of Nazi Ideology

episode in German history. Crude Marxist interpretations have seen Fascism and National Socialism as symptoms of a capitalist society overcome by its own contradictions. It was, the Marxists said, a last ditch attempt to save the capitalist system through authoritarianism. Others have sought to combine Marxist theory with psychoanalysis. The proponents of such theories were prominent in the German Frankfurt school and included most notably Adorno and Wilhelm Reich. In simple terms their theories saw Fascism as a product of middle class collective psychology brought on by the oppressions of capitalism and sexual repression.