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The “Hope of the Hopeless”
Contemporary Lessons from Marxist Struggles Against Hitler and Mussolini
From: Spectres of Fascism
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In this chapter, Schmidt recounts the struggles of Marxist authors and activists in the face of fascist governments like those of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco in the 20th century. He goes on to suggest ways that we can learn from their struggle to confront fascist ideologies today.
Contributors
Ingo Schmidt
Ingo Schmidt is an economist and Assistant Professor of Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University. He earned his PhD from the University of Göttingen and wrote a doctoral thesis on trade unions and Keynesianism. Dr. Schmidt has taught at different universities in Germany and Canada in the past and was a staff economist with the metal workers union, IG Metall, in Germany. He has co-authored and edited a number of books, most recently The Three Worlds of Social Democracy – A Global View (Pluto, 2016) and, with Carlo Fanelli, Reading “Capital” Today (Pluto, 2017). His articles have appeared in a number of German- and English-language journals, including Historical Materialism, Labour/ Le Travail, Monthly Review, International Critical Thought and Working USA. Dr. Schmidt is also the economics columnist of the monthly paper Sozialistische Zeitung.
