i love how libs always say "fascism and communism" (as though they were the same thing) "rose" in the 1930s. No. The West funded, armed, and enabled the rise of fascism as a direct response to a serious alternative to capitalism coming into power in the former Russian Empire. Also the USSR was merely the first socialist state. Communists and anarchists of the first international wrote to Lincoln congratulating him on emancipation in the 1860s. Communists were suppressed by the French government in the 1870s Paris Commune. Socialist, Anarchist, and Communist parties were victims of WW1 imperialism as nation states cracked down on internationalist political movements and drafted the international proletariat to murder each other in trenches. The US cracked down on socialist and anarchist labor movements in the 1870s through the 1910s, culminating in the Palmer Raids, which were all pre-McCarthyism. The birth of the Soviet Union was the first real victory of Socialism on the world stage and the immediate response was for 14 allied nations (including America, UK, France, and Japan) to intervene in the Russian civil war against the Reds. Mussolini and Hitler were the darlings of the American and British capitalists during their rise to power. The New York Times wrote positive op-eds about Hitler, and American corporations like Ford and IBM directly aided in the holocaust.