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What is Fascisms?
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Fascism speaks of the "people" but it serves the masters. It is a child of the crisis which we in American call "depression". When the reactionary industrialists and bankers saw their profits dwindling, their markets shrinking, their very property endangered by the rising wave of workers' struggles, they unleashed the bloodhounds of fascism.
What is the aim of fascism? The aim says Dimitroff is "to place the whole burden of the crisis on the backs of the toilers". He means to say that, with the aid of fascism, the masters want to squeeze out of the workers and farmers more sweat, more blood, in order that they, the rulers, might retain their profits undiminished. It is not the fault of the workers that the crisis is here. It is the fault of the system called capitalism. But the capitalists do not wish to suffer the consequences of the crisis. Rather do they want the great masses of the people to bear the brunt.
Nor is that all. Seeing the markets shrinking, the industrialists and bankers, the lords of finance capital (we call them Wall Street in the United States) have evinced a savage hunger for foreign countries. They look with covetous eyes at the weak colonial and semi-colonial peoples. The capitalist countries that possess colonies (we call them for this reason imperialist countries) are squeezing their colonies more brutally than ever. Those like Germany that have no colonies, or those like Italy that consider their colonial possessions insufficient to satisfy their appetites, have developed a bestial craving for other nations' colonies. They want to re-divide the world. This, of course, means war.
Fascism and war are twin brothers.
There is only one thing that stands in their way -- and that is the revolutionary movement of the workers and exploited farmers. There are millions, scores of millions of them in every country. They are hungry. They are oppressed. They often step up to demand their birthright. When their organizations shall become strong enough and their spirit militant enough, they will sweep over every country like a hurricane clearing it of the fascist pest, smashing the rule of the bosses, establishing

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