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>- Finance capitalism is unproductive and harmful to society -> the distinction between bourgeois and proletariat is replaced by one between producers and parasites (abandonment of the Marxist notions of class)
>- Neoclassical economics suggested that a true "free market" would be beneficial to all producers alike -> capitalism and private property must be upheld, the revolution becomes a rebellion against bourgeois values and not against economic exploitation (abandonment of anti-capitalism)
>- Recent sociology (Mosca, Pareto) suggested that all societies are run by a class of elites -> a heroic elite must be cultivated (abandonment of anti-elitism)
>At this point in their evolution, the "revolutionary syndicalists" in France and Italy have stopped resembling Marxist socialism or anarchism almost entirely. All they have left is a disdain for "bourgeois values" and a belief in a violent revolution led by elite "syndicates" of workers. But, when even the syndicates fail to be interested in revolution, the "revolutionary syndicalists" start looking for other ways to cultivate heroic revolutionary values. They toy around with using nationalism, imperialism, and warfare as ways to develop these virtues.
>We can finally see Fascism take its "classical" shape: a cultivation of heroic, violent values, encouraged by fighting for one's Nation, is supposed to lead to a revolution in morality which leaves the productive economic structures intact. Social unrest comes to an end, not when exploitation is ended, but when everyone knows their place within a harmonious society working in the service of the Nation.