On 2/28/14 11:12 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Fascism historically was used to break the back of the organized > industrial working class but in the Ukraine you find it in the east, not > the west. Are the fascist gangs going to cross over to the east and > smash the workers movement? A movement that does not appear to exist? > What is missing in all the accounts I have read from the pro-Putin left > is a Marxist analysis of the sort found in Daniel Guerin's "Fascism and > Big Business". >
http://links.org.au/node/3735 Interview with Ilya Budraitskis, a Moscow-based socialist in Kiev. So is this a fascist movement? I think that German socialists, at least, who throw the word “fascist” around, should learn a bit about the history of fascism. What do you mean by that? Fascism arose after the First World War as a counter-movement to strong revolutionary communist workers’ movements across large parts of Europe. Fascists had the explicit aim of smashing these workers’ movements and securing the dominance of capital, something the liberal state could not guarantee. They were able to seize power in Italy and Germany, but not in other countries. And today? In Ukraine in 2014 there is neither a strong workers’ movement, nor a fascist movement that aims to destroy it, nor a state which capital doesn’t trust. The situation is neither about bringing the working class to power, nor about physically destroying the workers’ movement. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
