Arthur Rosenberg: It is precisely the biggest and most powerful capitalists, the owners of giant monopolistic enterprises and of the fijinancial institutions linked to them who were the fijirst to abandon the hackneyed soil of liberalism and turn to the new imperialist methods. The vast majority of middling and small capitalists remained faithful to the liberal tradition for much longer. To capture state-power, the capitalists opposed to liberalism are compelled to enlist allies in other sectors of the population. The most astute leaders of the new imperialism manage to outdo even the liberals and the bourgeois democrats in their demagogy. Sometimes, under the slogan of national defence of the poor, they even fijight the ‘narrow-minded monied interests’ of liberalism. There is scarcely any doubt that modern fascism belongs with this type, and that it has developed the nationalist propaganda characteristic of this kind of politics to perfection. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3240