Third Period (was CPC, freedom of expression)

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:

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> CB: In the Third Period, didn't German bourgeois democracy , in fact,
produce fascism ?  Fascism did not come out of political thin air.
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Charles,
thats an red herring. That capitalism breeds fascism is nothing we have to
lecturer each other here. The problem is how to fight against it.

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> CB: You haven't demonstrated that it was 1) an error ; 2) that the error
was the cause of the rise to power of fascism. It may have been the errors
of the social democrats and bourgeois parties that caused the success
acession to power of the Nazis.
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ad 1)
History has proved that it was an error. The leadership of the German CP saw
no essential difference between the reactionary policy of the SPD and the
Nazis. They expected to overthrow Hitler after a few years. The slogan was
'After Hitler, it's us'.
We know history took a different course. The CP, SPD, the unions and all
other working class organisations were all smashed. The CP was only able to
return to Germany with the victorious Red Army.

ad 2)
What else do you expect from bourgeois parties than defending bourgeois
class rule and from the social democrats to sell out? Thats not the issue
here. The problem is that the self-isolation of the KPD spoiled all chances
for working class unity. That would have been the only force to struggle
successful against fascism.

Johannes