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Fascism, Anarchism, Bolshevism and the left

Arjan | 27.06.2006 23:22 | Anti-racism | Globalisation | Workers' Movements

Discuss please, as i found this quote from David Steele very interesting:

"Leftists often imagine that Fascists were afraid of a revolutionary working-class. Nothing could be more comically mistaken. Most of the early Fascist leaders had spent years trying to get the workers to become revolutionary. As late as June 1914, Mussolini took part enthusiastically, at risk of his own life and limb, in the violent and confrontational "red week." The initiators of Fascism were mostly seasoned anti-capitalist militants who had time and again given the working class the benefit of the doubt. The working class, by not becoming revolutionary, had let these revolutionaries down."

I've often thought that there was a fine line between "fascists" and "anti fascists" I personally see little difference between, say, the SWP and the BNP.

Serious discussion rather than cat-calling much appreciated.

Arjan