Middle class can become fascist, says Orwell

It is quite easy to imagine a middle class crushed down to the worst depths of poverty and still remaining bitterly anti-working class in sentiment; this being, of course, a ready-made Fascist Party.

George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1958), p. 258 (1st U.S. ed.; pub. in England in 1937)