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Fascism and Anti-Fascism

   Substitution of Notions

   Probably everyone who is even a little interested in politics could not miss the recent exaggeration of fascism topic everywhere by forces of quite different ideological directions. Let’s begin with what is on the spot – with current authorities raising “fight against fascism” as an official ideology. At the same time all the unwanted ate called “fascists” – from communists to liberals. Of course, the problem of neo-nazism exists, but is to a high degree inspired by authorities themselves who direct the protest energy of youth to the false enemy – to working people with another colour of eyes. Moreover, such spirits are cheered up artificially – remind, for example, the anti-Georgian campaign or hysteria around the prohibition the “Russian March” organized by rather moderate forces. But agiotage inspired by Moscow authorities around the march and its prohibition has only increased popularity of nationalist ideas.

   Concerning “anti-fascists” the situation is even more complicated that the fascists (if we take the closest meaning of this word to its true one). Everyone who is not lazy speculates on the topic of anti-fascism during the last months of 2006. So, pro-Kremlin movement reacted at the “anti-fascist” campaign with proper cynism – distributing cheap New Year gifts to veterans in honour of the 65th anniversary of the Moscow battle victory. Of course it is a good matter if we forgive that the same authorities had doomed the elderly to poverty, to humiliating miserable pensions and a year ago had tried to take away their deserved privileges.

   Even more interesting is the fact that some “left” forces took up the topic of “anti-fascism” some weeks and even months before November, 4. It was the part of the left circle which positions as irreconcilable adversaries of current authorities and personally Putin (sometimes appears even as independent on his policy) suddenly took up the “anti-fascist” rhythorics simultaneously with the ruling party.

   Some politicians calling themselves “communists” organized joint actions “anti-fascist” against the “Russian March” even with movements of persons of non-conventional sexual orientation which looked ferocious not only for socialism supporters but for all decent people. A natural question arises – do we need such “anti-fascism”? Several weeks later the same groups found themselves among the participants of anti-Putin’s “March of discordants” together with liberals, extremely right “free market” supporters – “against fascism” again. No, comrades, we don’t need such “anti-fascism”.

   A question arises – what do we mean under fascism and anti-fascism (without inverted commas)? Our answer was given on November, 4 at the meeting at the monument of the outstanding fighter against fascism Ernst Thaelmann. Let us take the Great Soviet Encyclopedia published in the 1950es: “Fascism is the most reactionary political trend which appeared in capitalist countries during the period of total crisis of capitalism and which expresses the interests of the most aggressive circles of imperialist bourgeois; the openly terrorist dictatorship of monopolist capital is also called F. Elimination or aspiration to eliminate all the democratic freedoms, extreme chauvinism, preparing and unleashing aggressive, annexationist wars are distinctive for F.” So, what fascism are this gentlemen going to fight against? The fascism which had been defeated by Soviet people – they are late for approximately 65 years. Or all the displeased? It is called otherwise.

   Communists, Bolsheviks were always the most consistent fighters against fascism and nazism. It were communists who were forwards during the Great Patriotic war and it was Communist party which lost at battlefields three million and a half members – its doubled pre-war number. So you look for fascists in a wrong place. Moreover, a substitution of notions is taking place in mass conscience – what to call “fascism” and what to call “anti-fascism”. So it is no coincidence that on November, 4 we came to the square with the slogan “Capitalism is an enemy of working people of all nationalities”. Our task is to unmask everybody who sweeps his muddy paws to memory of our forefathers who defeated fascism and everybody who tries to confuse notions of fascism and anti-fascism and makes substitution in his mercenary interests irrespectively whether they belong to ruling party encampment or portray themselves as opposition.

   Maria Donchenko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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