I’ve heard the critique that Dutt’s thesis (fascism is the “death rattle” of “capitalism in decay”) is mistaken and dated. This was from a very interesting essay on redsails that noted primitive accumulation is basis for capital, not capitalism, therefore making it an ongoing process.¹ With this understanding:

Describing fascism as the “death-rattle” of [capitalism] obscures the fact that it has been present from the outset. Fascism is just the operational aspect that the unlucky part of the globe gets to experience capitalism as.

Overall I find this conclusion more much sound than ideas like fascism being just a particular petty bourgeois movement emerging from the conditions of interwar Europe. The history of the west is deeply fascist.

1. Indigenous land displacement, debt traps, and data harvesting, for instance

P.S. I haven’t gone deeply into the book and apologize if there’s some misunderstandings on my part.