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	'''Social-fascism''' is a term to refer to movements which are [[Socialism\|socialist]] in words yet [[Fascism\|fascistic]] in effective actions. The term is often used to refer to the perceived collaboration between [[social democrats]] and [[fascists]] and their shared characteristics in dividing the [[working class]] movement, [[Anti-communism\|opposing]] [[communism]], and defending the [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] system.<ref>Rajani Palme Dutt (1935). [https://web.archive.org/web/20251205123907/https://www.marxists.org/archive/dutt/1935/fascism-social-revolution-2.pdf#page=110 ''Fascism and Social Revolution'', Ch. VIII, Social Democracy and Fascism]. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive. <blockquote>"[...] if the Fascist dictatorship weakens, Social Democracy stands ready to come to the rescue of capitalism. The distinction of Social Democracy and Fascism is no less important to understand than the parallelism. Both are instruments of the rule of monopoly capital. Both fight the working-class revolution. Both weaken and disrupt the class organisations of the workers. But their methods differ. Fascism shatters the class organisations of the workers from without, opposing their whole basis, and putting forward an alternative “national” ideology. Social Democracy undermines the class organisations of the workers from within, building on the basis of the previous independent movement and “Marxist” ideology, which still holds the workers’ traditions and discipline, in order more effectively to carry through the policy of capital and smash all militant struggle. Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal- parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion."</blockquote></ref> Further, the term has been used by [[Anti-revisionism\|anti-revisionist]] authors like [[Enver Hoxha]] to refer to the internal (domestic) policy of [[revisionism]], which goes alongside the foreign policy, [[social-imperialism]].<ref>Enver Hoxha (1969). ''The Demagogy of the Soviet Revisionists Cannot Conceal Their Traitorous Countenance''.<blockquote>"Social-fascism in the home policy has social-imperialism as its direct continuation in foreign policy; and while they seek to camouflage fascism with 'socialist' phraseology, the Soviet leaders strive to conceal their imperialism with the slogan of 'proletarian internationalism.'"</blockquote></ref>		'''Social-fascism''' is a term to refer to movements which are [[Socialism\|socialist]] in words yet [[Fascism\|fascistic]] in effective actions. The term is often used to refer to the perceived collaboration between [[social democrats]] and [[fascists]] and their shared characteristics in dividing the [[working class]] movement, [[Anti-communism\|opposing]] [[communism]], and defending the [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] system.<ref>Rajani Palme Dutt (1935). [https://web.archive.org/web/20251205123907/https://www.marxists.org/archive/dutt/1935/fascism-social-revolution-2.pdf#page=110 ''Fascism and Social Revolution'', Ch. VIII, Social Democracy and Fascism]. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive. <blockquote>"[...] if the Fascist dictatorship weakens, Social Democracy stands ready to come to the rescue of capitalism. The distinction of Social Democracy and Fascism is no less important to understand than the parallelism. Both are instruments of the rule of monopoly capital. Both fight the working-class revolution. Both weaken and disrupt the class organisations of the workers. But their methods differ. Fascism shatters the class organisations of the workers from without, opposing their whole basis, and putting forward an alternative “national” ideology. Social Democracy undermines the class organisations of the workers from within, building on the basis of the previous independent movement and “Marxist” ideology, which still holds the workers’ traditions and discipline, in order more effectively to carry through the policy of capital and smash all militant struggle. Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal- parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion."</blockquote></ref> Further, the term has been used by [[Anti-revisionism\|anti-revisionist]] authors like [[Enver Hoxha]] to refer to the internal (domestic) policy of [[revisionism]], which goes alongside the foreign policy, [[social-imperialism]].<ref>Enver Hoxha (1969). ''The Demagogy of the Soviet Revisionists Cannot Conceal Their Traitorous Countenance''.<blockquote>"Social-fascism in the home policy has social-imperialism as its direct continuation in foreign policy; and while they seek to camouflage fascism with 'socialist' phraseology, the Soviet leaders strive to conceal their imperialism with the slogan of 'proletarian internationalism.'"</blockquote></ref> On that note, it was [[Mao Zedong]] who, in 1964, stated that the [[Soviet Union]], under perceived revisionist leadership, was a fascist dictatorship.<ref>Mao Zedong (1964). [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_18.htm "Some Interjections At A Briefing The State Planning Commission Leading Group"]. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive. <blockquote>"5. The Soviet Union today is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, a dictatorship of the grand bourgeoisie, a fascist German dictatorship, and a Hitlerite dictatorship. They are a bunch of rascals worse than De Gaulle."</blockquote></ref>
	==See also==		==See also==
	* [[Social-chauvinism]]		* [[Social-chauvinism]]

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'''Social-fascism''' is a term to refer to movements which are [[Socialism|socialist]] in words yet [[Fascism|fascistic]] in effective actions. The term is often used to refer to the perceived collaboration between [[social democrats]] and [[fascists]] and their shared characteristics in dividing the [[working class]] movement, [[Anti-communism|opposing]] [[communism]], and defending the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] system.<ref>Rajani Palme Dutt (1935). [https://web.archive.org/web/20251205123907/https://www.marxists.org/archive/dutt/1935/fascism-social-revolution-2.pdf#page=110 ''Fascism and Social Revolution'', Ch. VIII, Social Democracy and Fascism]. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive. <blockquote>"[...] if the Fascist dictatorship weakens, Social Democracy stands ready to come to the rescue of capitalism. The distinction of Social Democracy and Fascism is no less important to understand than the parallelism. Both are instruments of the rule of monopoly capital. Both fight the working-class revolution. Both weaken and disrupt the class organisations of the workers. But their methods differ. Fascism shatters the class organisations of the workers from without, opposing their whole basis, and putting forward an alternative “national” ideology. Social Democracy undermines the class organisations of the workers from within, building on the basis of the previous independent movement and “Marxist” ideology, which still holds the workers’ traditions and discipline, in order more effectively to carry through the policy of capital and smash all militant struggle. Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal- parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion."</blockquote></ref> Further, the term has been used by [[Anti-revisionism|anti-revisionist]] authors like [[Enver Hoxha]] to refer to the internal (domestic) policy of [[revisionism]], which goes alongside the foreign policy, [[social-imperialism]].<ref>Enver Hoxha (1969). ''The Demagogy of the Soviet Revisionists Cannot Conceal Their Traitorous Countenance''.<blockquote>"Social-fascism in the home policy has social-imperialism as its direct continuation in foreign policy; and while they seek to camouflage fascism with 'socialist' phraseology, the Soviet leaders strive to conceal their imperialism with the slogan of 'proletarian internationalism.'"</blockquote></ref>
==See also==
* [[Social-chauvinism]]
* [[Social-imperialism]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
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