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KAROL focuses on why Russian strategy as pursued by the Cuban PSP failed miserably. During the 1930's the Comintern line dictated Communist party coalitions with bourgeois groups, making a united anti-fascist front. Batista, then in power, at American urging welcomed the legitimacy brought by collaboration with the popular PSP. This work-through-the-system strategy, however, meant an ideological retreat for the militants as they had to accept Batista's policy with little power to criticize. Stalin repudiated the PSP, because he rightly felt that this interpretation of the Comintern strategy led to dangerous revisionist theories which would...
...followed in similar situations by other cities, and he also likened the Mayday protesters to Hitler's Brown Shirts. However troublesome Rennie Davis' legions were, for Mitchell to damn them as Nazis was hardly more precise than for them to label him, as they habitually do, a fascist...
...still hear the term of course. Now we talk about the civil rights of white antiwar demonstrators who are swept off of Washington's streets by the Attorney General's conquering hordes, or of the civil rights of white radicals who are silenced by a fascist judge in Chicago, or of the civil rights of white Congressmen whose phones are bugged by the anonymous electricians of the FBI. This is all correct usage, but it's not the same as it used to be. For when a bunch of Black Panthers are gunned down in cold blood by white policemen...
...mass arrests without cause and the indiscriminate gassing and beatings speak of it, understanding that there can be a future in which all 7000 arrestees end up in mass graves. This government does roughly equivalent things in Vietnam, but when they happen at home, that will be fascism. But fascist repression at home will remain unlikely, not because the government is incapable, but because the American people will not allow it. The deaths of four students caused a furor...
...contradictions are apparent: we would not go to Washington to disrupt non-violently this fascist imperialist government if we did not ourselves still believe that it is a liberal state, not fascist-still believe that the war is a horrible mistake which does not in itself mean that American society is really what it seems when we think about the war. We go to Washington believing that the government will respond to our acts of outrage and defiance in a non-fascist...