Social-fascism

Social-fascism is a term to refer to movements which are socialist in words yet 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, opposing communism, and defending the capitalist system.^[1] Further, the term has been used by anti-revisionist authors like Enver Hoxha to refer to the internal (domestic) policy of revisionism, which goes alongside the foreign policy, social-imperialism.^[2]

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↑ Rajani Palme Dutt (1935). Fascism and Social Revolution, Ch. VIII, Social Democracy and Fascism. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.
"[...] 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."
↑ Enver Hoxha (1969). The Demagogy of the Soviet Revisionists Cannot Conceal Their Traitorous Countenance.
"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.'"

[1] Rajani Palme Dutt (1935). Fascism and Social Revolution, Ch. VIII, Social Democracy and Fascism. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.
"[...] 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."

[2] Enver Hoxha (1969). The Demagogy of the Soviet Revisionists Cannot Conceal Their Traitorous Countenance.
"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.'"

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