Trotsky on fascism
Leon Trotsky, writing before and after Hitler came to power, tried to warn the labour movement about the policies of the, then very strong, German Communist Party, policies which proved to be disastrous. He advocated a policy of the “united front”. His writings have a lot to tell us about the nature of fascism and how to fight it. For workers’ unity against the fascists “No matter how true it is that the Social Democracy by its whole policy prepared the blossoming of fascism, it is no less true that fascism comes forward as a deadly threat primarily to that same Social Democracy, all of whose...