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Free Download Leon Trotsky, "Democracy, Bonapartism and Fascism: Class Struggle in the 1930s"
English | ISBN: 1916936156 | 2025 | 382 pages | EPUB | 1135 KB
The inter-war years were a time of deep crisis, class struggle and revolutionary opportunities.
The economic crisis produced a crisis of democracy itself. The ruling class, with nothing to offer, ran out of means to keep the workers at bay. As Trotsky explained, under the intensity of the class struggle and international conflict, "the fuses of democracy blow out".
What followed was a succession of Bonapartist regimes - i.e. military-police dictatorships - each paving the way for Hitler.
Trotsky, expelled by Stalin from the Communist International and hounded across the globe, fought to arm revolutionaries with this perspective: a Marxist understanding of the crisis, the rise of Bonapartism and fascism, and the only road forward - to win the confidence of the masses and prepare for power.
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