German fascism is acting as the spearhead of international counter-revolution, as the chief instigator of imperialist war, as the initiator of a crusade against the Soviet Union, the great fatherland of the working people of the whole world.įascism is not a form of state power "standing above both classes - the proletariat and the bourgeoisie," as Otto Bauer, for instance, has asserted. It is medieval barbarity and bestiality, it is unbridled aggression in relation to other nations. It is a government system of political gangsterism, a system of provocation and torture practised upon the working class and the revolutionary elements of the peasantry, the petty bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia. German fascism is not only bourgeois nationalism, it is fiendish chauvinism. It has the effrontery to call itself National Socialism, though it has nothing in common with socialism. The most reactionary variety of fascism is the German type of fascism. THE CLASS CHARACTER OF FASCISMĬomrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital. In a number of countries, Germany in particular, these imperialist circles have succeeded, before the masses had decisively turned towards revolution, in inflicting defeat on the proletariat, and establishing a fascist dictatorship.īut it is characteristic of the victory of fascism that this victory, on the one hand, bears witness to the weakness of the proletariat, disorganized and paralyzed by the disruptive Social-Democratic policy of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, and, on the other, expresses the weakness of the bourgeoisie itself, afraid of the realization of a united struggle of the working class, afraid of revolution, and no longer in a position to maintain its dictatorship over the masses by the old methods of bourgeois democracy and parliamentarism. They are striving to forestall the growth of the forces of revolution by smashing the revolutionary movement of the workers and peasants and by undertaking a military attack against the Soviet Union - the bulwark of the world proletariat. They are trying to solve the problem of markets by enslaving the weak nations, by intensifying colonial oppression and repartitioning the world anew by means of war. The imperialist circles are trying to shift the whole burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the working people. The ruling bourgeoisie more and more seeks salvation in fascism, with the object of taking exceptional predatory measures against the working people, preparing for an imperialist war of plunder, attacking the Soviet Union, enslaving and partitioning China, and by all these means preventing revolution. With the development of the very deep economic crisis, with the general crisis of capitalism becoming sharply accentuated and the mass of working people becoming revolutionized, fascism has embarked upon a wide offensive. The Congress pointed out that 'in a more or less developed form, fascist tendencies and the germs of a fascist movement are to be found almost everywhere.' CONSOLIDATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL UNITY OF THE PROLETARIATĬomrades, as early as the Sixth Congress, the Communist International warned the world proletariat that a new fascist offensive was under way and called for a struggle against it. The United Front in countries where the social democrats The United Front and the fascist mass organizations Key questions of the United Front in individual countries The chief arguments of the opponents of the United Front UNITED FRONT OF THE WORKING CLASS AGAINST FASCISM What does fascist victory bring to the masses?įascism - A ferocious but unstable power Source: Source: Georgi Dimitrov, Selected Works Sofia Press, Sofia, Vol The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism Georgi Dimitrov The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism Main Report delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International
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