sorry for posting a link to the CPUSA, please forgive me Mr Chapo
Togliatti saw doom on the horizon. This is evident in his 1922 Report on Fascism, written for the Fourth Congress of the Comintern, and in his 1928 A proposito del fascismo. Both of the documents indicated the need for a broad alliance to defeat fascism, although it had to be an alliance, he argued, that would not betray the struggles of the working class and the peasantry. The point of communism, Togliatti suggested, was not to deliver the working class and the peasantry to the liberal wing of the bourgeoisie. Rather, it was to ensure that allies of these two classes would find it necessary to combat fascism in order to produce a genuine democracy, a democracy where the workers would not be shunned aside.
This article uses a ton of words to say "if I was alive in the 30s, I simply would have prevented the descent into fascism"