Fascism is a historical and political force that emerged in the early 20th century, first in Italy and later in Germany and Japan. The phenomenon derives from liberalism as it becomes increasingly insecure in its own contradictions.
The liberal view of fascism claims that it is merely nationalistic, right-wing, anti-Semitic, and most importantly the advocacy for "otherness." The liberal view also claims that fascism rejects liberal democracy for exterior motives such as militarism and race. This view is reductive and false. The emergence of fascism was directly concurrent to the period of capitalist crisis in which the bourgeoisie, "must turn against what itself created, because what was once a factor of its development today has become an obstacle to the preservation of capitalist society." [1] Fascism only did away with liberal democracy because of the real conditions of imperialism in their respective contexts.
Fascism was defined by Georgi Dimitrov at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International as, "the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital." [2]
Today, libtard 'leftism' resembles fascism due to its liquidationist tendencies in favor of Western imperialism. It also contains the institutionalization and professional, middling character as fascism held historically. The former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Italy gave a clear warning against these narrow ideological characterizations of the liberal definition of fascism:
"I warn you against the tendency to regard fascist ideology as something that is solidly formed, complete, homogenous. Nothing more closely resembles a chameleon than fascist ideology. Don't look at fascist ideology without considering the objectives which fascism proposes to reach at a given moment with a given ideology." [3]
Further reading[edit | edit source]
- Lectures on Fascism - Palmiro Togliatti
- The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism - Georgi Dimitrov
- Fascism and Big Business - Daniel Guerin
- Under the Axe of Fascism - Gaetano Salvemini
- The Theory of Factions in Monopoly Capital - Richard Corell and Ernst Herzog
- Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti
- The Struggle Against Fascism - Clara Zetkin
- Various works on fascism by R. Palme Dutt
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Togliatti, Palmiro. Lectures on Fascism. Edited by Vijay Prashad, International Publishers Company, Incorporated, 2017, 1970, 1935.
- ↑ Dimitrov, Georgi. “The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism.” Marxists Internet Archive, 2 August 1935, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm#s2.
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