Fascism by Leon Trotsky
What It Is and How to Fight It
A concise analysis arguing that fascism is a distinctive, violent form of counterrevolutionary mass politics that arises from capitalist crisis and the failures of reformist parties: it combines a base among the petty bourgeoisie, lumpen elements and disorganized workers with backing from sections of big capital and the state, uses paramilitary terror, extreme nationalism and anti‑communist propaganda to destroy trade unions and democratic institutions, and seeks to impose open dictatorship; the only effective response, the book contends, is a determined, politically independent and united working‑class movement capable of combining mass resistance with revolutionary leadership rather than reliance on bourgeois democracy or timid compromises.
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