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> [...] > Radek's lunacy struck a chord with the German Communist > ultraleftists who went even further in their enthusiasm for the > right-wing fighters. Ruth Fischer gave a speech at a gathering of > right-wing students where she echoed fascist themes: > [...] > full: > http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/organization/comintern_and_germany.htm > > Is this the same Karl Radek that described Fascism as the iron hoop that keeps capitalism's 'barrel' from collapsing? Is that quote post or pre Nazi infatuation? Maybe he and others thought that the working class elements within the Fascist movement at the time in Germany could somehow be seduced into working class consciousness of the socialist kind by using racist rhetoric? This feeds my long-held paranoia that there was a bit of anti-Semitism in Stalin and his cohorts especially during their conspiracy against Trotsky. You're right, though: Lunacy, to think that fascism, already formed, can be co-opted or defeated with anything but violence. A 'baseball bat', in Woody's parlance. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-Marxism--follow-up-on-Communists-and-Nazis-tp27855140p27858620.html Sent from the Marxism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
