Thus The Wall Street Journal today about yesterday’s events. “General strikes against government austerity measures hit Spain, Portugal, and Greece, but questions remain about union’s ability to influence economic policy,” explains the newspaper. Well put. Unions are powerless not only politically, but also ideologically. They have nothing to offer by way of an alternative. The working class of yesteryear has dissolved across the sub-continent. All that remains is the impoverished middle class, the petty bourgeoisie, and its ideological support is elsewhere: fascism. Nowadays, fascism is mainly against immigration, which is essential for Europe’s survival, but it will grow in scope as the depression takes hold. What will happen with the unions, though? Now that communism is but a historical joke, they will have no ideological support of their own. Many of them will thus turn toward fascism. As Marx would put it, history often repeats itself as a farce.