The fight against fascist threat
Around the world, capitalist governments are reacting to the crisis of capitalism by elevating fascist and extreme-right parties while promoting nationalism, anti-immigrant chauvinism and militarism.
In the United States, former president Donald Trump, with the support of significant sections of the Republican Party and the military, are seeking to build a fascistic movement. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro, a former military officer, openly hails the blood-soaked military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. And in Germany, of all places, the political establishment has elevated the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the official opposition, while leading German academics, with state support, attempt to relativize and whitewash the crimes of the Nazis.
Between 1931 and 1933, Trotsky sought to rouse the most politically conscious sections of the German working class and the socialist intelligentsia to the immense danger posed by fascism and the urgent necessity for a unified struggle of the proletariat to prevent a Nazi victory. Trotsky's writings on German fascism rank among the greatest works of political literature in the twentieth century. No one else wrote with such prescience, precision and passion on the German events and their world historical implications.
In the essays included in Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It Trotsky examines the political and social origins of fascism and elaborates a strategy for the defense of the working class against this deadly menace.
Why are they back? Historical Falsification, Political Conspiracy, and the Return of Fascism in Germany analyzes the interaction of high-level political conspirators, media propagandists and right-wing academics at Berlin's Humboldt University in the present-day resurgence of Nazism and German militarism.
The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power
Peter Ross Range has written a gripping account of Hitler's rise to power. As the Nazi party was torn by internal dissent and losing popular support, a high-level conspiracy placed Hitler in the chancellor's office. With the January 6, 2021 insurrection and the ongoing crisis of American democracy, this history is more than relevant. It is a warning.
A journalist and specialist on Germany, author Peter Ross Range tells the story of 1924: The Year That Made Hitler, which is also available from Mehring.com, vital to understand the persistence and subsequent rise of Hitler as the leader of the Nazi Party.
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Leon Trotsky on France
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