More impressionistic twaddle about the subject of class and fascism, from someone who should know MUCH better. There is something deeply wrong in our society when almost no one can seem to talk about class in a remotely objective way. The EDL reckon they're working class, lots of liberals think they are too. David Cameron reckons he's middle-class. Copyright law is socialist. The police reclaim the streets. White people have gone black. Privatisation is reform. Cats are dogs, up is down and that big pile of shit over there is actually ice cream - take a bite, no, I insist, luv your government.
But seriously folks, fascism is a middle class movement. The illusion that is is a working class movement comes in part from liberal fear/fantasies about the violent potency of the underclass; if anything the typical EDL member is not a rippling Ubermensch but a spotty lad. Fascism is middle class because (1) it dovetails philosophically and psychologically with the deranged small-property owner and (2) the practical committment it requires suits the middle class. Think about typical EDL activity today...
Which honest to goodness prole has the time, let alone the money, to hop on a bus or train most weekends to attempt mass-ultra violence in town centres? Committing to street fascism in the long run is committing to a criminal record. Who can just afford to do that? The EDL is in part built out of football firms. These firms have money.
This should all be obvious, but it seems not.
