Editing Fascism

'''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 [[Liberal|liberalism]] as it becomes increasingly insecure in its own contradictions. 

The liberal view of fascism claims that it is merely [[nationalism|nationalistic]], [[right-wing]], [[Antisemitism|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.''" <ref>Togliatti, Palmiro. Lectures on Fascism. Edited by Vijay Prashad, International Publishers Company, Incorporated, 2017, 1970, 1935.</ref> 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]]."'' <ref>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, <nowiki>https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm#s2</nowiki>.</ref>
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:<blockquote>''"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."'' <ref name=":0" /></blockquote>

== Further reading ==
* ''Lectures on Fascism'' - Palmiro Togliatti
* [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm ''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
* [https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1923/06/struggle-against-fascism.html ''The Struggle Against Fascism'' - Clara Zetkin]
* Various works on fascism by R. Palme Dutt
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