Fw: Austrian fascists

["Barry Buitekant" <Barry.Buitekant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So what does this tell us, besides the fact that you're a Trot of some kind?
Tahir

 What I was trying to say was that Gary's statement that the social
democratics were solely responsible for the rise of nazism in pre war Europe
is not borne out by the facts.

Whilst the social democrats must take their share of the blame I believe
that in Germany the policy of the stalinists calling the social democrats
"social
fascists" was suicidal. Trotsky pointed out that the way forward was for a
united front between the KPD and SPD. This policy could not in itself
guarantee that the rise of the nazis would be stopped. But the stalinist
policy did guarantee that the working class would be  disunited and thus
defeated.

I thought that the above view would now be common currency between marxists.
Certainly in the UK many comrades who were long term members of the
Communist Party would not disagree with what I am saying.  Perhaps Tahir
could enlighten us with his views on this matter.

Barry Buitekant
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>>maybe I misread my Trotsky.
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