I feel like if the capitalists weren't in power the proletarian state would be 110% pushing the "capitalism is fascism" argument and representing capitalism as just fascism. All the horrors of it. All the time. The proletarian propaganda against capitalism would be driving the knife in just as hard as the bourgeoise propaganda currently drives the knife into communism via representing it as all the purge and all that.
In that situation capitalists would benefit very greatly from separating themselves from fascism, and representing themselves as the very friendliest variant, the nicest socdems.
For this same reason I think MLs acting as demsocs has been effective in places like Bolivia, with united mixed-ideology popular parties like MAS.
Hmm. I'm not sure.
I feel like if the capitalists weren't in power the proletarian state would be 110% pushing the "capitalism is fascism" argument and representing capitalism as just fascism. All the horrors of it. All the time. The proletarian propaganda against capitalism would be driving the knife in just as hard as the bourgeoise propaganda currently drives the knife into communism via representing it as all the purge and all that.
In that situation capitalists would benefit very greatly from separating themselves from fascism, and representing themselves as the very friendliest variant, the nicest socdems.
For this same reason I think MLs acting as demsocs has been effective in places like Bolivia, with united mixed-ideology popular parties like MAS.