Stalinism’s failure to fight fascism
marxistleftreview.org
Vashti Fox explains how Stalinism enabled and at times collaborated with fascist movements and states during the 1930s and ’40s, while the Stalinised Communist Parties undermined revolutionary working-class anti-fascism – a history that has important lessons for fighting the far right today.

drawing false equivalences between “Stalinism” and fascism, claiming the Soviets enabled fascists, they’re really playing the hits

  • Abstraction [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Spanish civil war is so full of lessons to be learned, "Stalin threw on purpose" is such a silly one to choose. I like how the article even paints the militarization of the militias in a negative light, as if the militias were not constantly losing critical battles.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I'm pretty sympathetic to the CNT/FAI and Stalin absolutely can be critiqued on trying to make the capitalists like him against all logic, instead of supporting a more revolutionary angle. But he definitely wanted to win and spent significant resources that he couldn't really afford doing so.