The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism

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Publisher:  Living Marxism
Year Published:  1939
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX10826

Russia must be placed first among the new totalitarian states. It was the first to adopt the new state principle. It went furthest in its application. It was the first to establish a constitutional dictatorship, together with the political and administrative terror system which goes with it. Adopting all the features of the total state, it thus became the model for those other countries which were forced to do away with the democratic state system and to change to dictatorial rule. Russia was the example for fascism. There is an unbridgeable opposition between bolshevism and socialism. Nationalism, authoritarianism, centralism, leader dictatorship, power policies, terror-rule, mechanistic dynamics, inability to socialize-all these essential characteristics of fascism were and are existing in bolshevism.

Subject Headings

• Anti-Fascism
• Bolshevism
• Fascism
• Nazis
• Right, The
• Soviet Union
• Totalitarianism