We re-publish in English an article, released by the Argentina-based group Cuadernos de Negacion that deals with the rise of the extreme right. More specifically, it deals critically with the use of the term “fascist” to describe this tendency. We agree with them that the danger of fascism today is not necessarily to lead us into war, but to portray liberal democracy as the only possible horizon, thus expunging any class perspective in the name of “anti-fascism”. Moreover, we agree that democracy itself, which has become the order of organized exploitation of class society, has integrated and perfected “fascist” repression and ideologically benefits from its appearance by the possibility of portraying a common enemy by which all sorts of inter-classist coalitions may form. The logic of the “lesser of two evils” is one that captures the working-class on a bourgeois ideological terrain. Pro-revolutionaries must understand this mechanism with a view to counter its perspective. We consider this text to be a good contribution to that discussion.

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FASCISM AND ANTIFASCISM

Cuadernos de Negación, 2024

This article was originally published in Fascism / Antifascism (Lazo Ediciones, 2024). This book also contains: Cuando mueren las insurrecciones (When Insurrections Die ) and Fascismo / Antifascismo (Fascism/Anti-Fascism ) by Gilles Dauvé, the debates it sparked with the magazine Aufheben and the excerpt of an interview with Troploin.  

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