IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

On fascism

Socialist Challenge No. 121, 8 November 1979 · pp. 7-8 of the scan · 378 words

The scan: sc-n121-nov-08-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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1011 ANNABLE: socialise C'hallenge's 1980 calendar Hirom which the abore montage i laken on the life of leon Trotsky. It contains many pistographs never before available in Britain and is exclusivels designed be David Ning. Individual orders t2 plus 10p p&p from sociali (hallenge, PO) Bos 50. 2NP. for bulh rates telephone Mike on 01-359 8371.

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London NI Betrayed', by Leon Trotsky. big for vengeance...

ruined their plaints of society reserves they eliminated organism undigested THE TODAY: AT THE start of his pittxt i. Hitler stood out onl! taste temperament. louder than others, and so ietesa.rii mediocrity much more si-kissa: He did not bring into the rorest? any ready-made programme. disregards the insulted soldier's thir There were in German! plenty and drowning people their fists on the table. This Hitler could do better than others. True. he knew not how to cure the evil... (but doomed classes, like those fatally ill. never tire of making variations on nor of listening to consolations. Hitler's speeches were all attuned to this pitch...

Fascism has opened up the depths for politics...there lives alongside the 20th century the tenth or the thirteenth... What inexhaustible possess of darkness. ignorance and savagery! Despair has raised them to their feet, fascism has given them a banner.

Everything that should have been the national in the form of cultural excrement in the course of the normal developement of society has now come gushing out from the throat: capitalist society is puking up the barbarism. Such physiology of Nazism...

FOURTH A detailed analysis of the situation inside the Fourth International will appear in week's issue of Socialist Challenge.

Socialist Challenge 8 November 1979 Page 7

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executions was deeply pessimistic. He replied:

'Indignation, anger, human.

passively Bukharin, Rakovsky and

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