Yes, I ate all the pixels
Social fascist theory stays winning. SPD refused to strike against the Nazis when they took power. :josus-stalin:
Fucking idiots thought they could work within the Nazi system right up until they started getting purged.
That doesn’t make sense. If they are social fascists why did the Nazis kill them? Because they weren’t fascist
Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.
The theory being that they both act to protect the Bourgeoisie from proletarian revolution, in two different ways. The choice between the two is a false dichotomy, as shown by how the SPD spent the 20s and 30s fighting against the KPD (including refusing to act against the Nazis, and conceding to right-wing element in the country), before getting merked by the Nazis they thought they could coexist with.
So Europe is closer to fascism than Brazil? This doesn’t make sense. I dont agree that making the poor starve will lead to any sort of positive revolutionary leftist thought. It still needs teaching and advocates. Of which there are virtually none in the US. Social Dems would keep the US from falling into fascism until the left gains a foothold.
Why would Strasserites be purged and killed in the Night of Long Knives? Because they weren’t fascists.
Why would Nazis attempt to assassinate Hitler via the 20 July plot? Because Hitler wasn’t fascist.
Why did Italians hand Mussolini from a lamppost by the end of the war? Mussolini simply wasn’t fascist.
