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''The following report was given June 20, 1923, to the Third Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. It is reprinted from Mike Taber and John Riddell, eds., Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win (Haymarket Books, 2017).''

Fascism confronts the proletariat as an exceptionally dangerous and frightful enemy. Fascism is the strongest, most concentrated, and classic expression at this time of the world bourgeoisie’s general offensive. It is urgently necessary that it be brought down. This is true not only with respect to the historic existence of the proletariat as a class, which will free humankind by surmounting capitalism. It is also a question of survival for every ordinary worker, a question of bread, working conditions, and quality of life for millions and millions of the exploited.

That is why the struggle against fascism must be taken up by the entire proletariat. It is evident that we will overcome this wily enemy all the sooner to the degree that we grasp its essential character and how that character is expressed. There has been great confusion regarding fascism, not only among the broad masses of proletarians but also within their revolutionary vanguard, among Communists. At first, the prevailing view was that fascism was nothing more than violent bourgeois terror, and its character and effects were thought to be similar to those of the Horthy regime in Hungary <sup>[1]</sup>. Yet even though fascism and the Horthy regime employ the same bloody, terrorist methods, which bear down on the proletariat in the same way, the historical essence of the two phenomena is entirely different.

The terror in Hungary began after the defeat of an initially victorious revolutionary struggle. For a moment the bourgeoisie trembled before the proletariat’s might. The Horthy terror emerged as revenge against the revolution. The agent of this revenge was a small caste of feudal officers.

Fascism is quite different from that. It is not at all the revenge of the bourgeoisie against the militant uprising of the proletariat. In historical terms, viewed objectively, fascism arrives much more as punishment because the proletariat has not carried and driven forward the revolution that began in Russia. And the base of fascism lies not in a small caste but in broad social layers, broad masses, reaching even into the proletariat. We must understand these essential differences in order to deal successfully with fascism. Military means alone cannot vanquish it, if I may use that term; we must also wrestle it to the ground politically and ideologically.
== The social-democratic view of fascism ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/The social democratic view of fascism}}
== The social roots of fascism ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/The social roots of fascism}}
== Failure of proletarian leadership ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Failure of proletarian leadership}}
== Fascism’s mass character ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascism s mass character}}
== The bourgeoisie and fascism ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/The bourgeoisie and fascism}}
== Fascism’s rise in Italy ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascism s rise in Italy}}
== Demoralization and terror ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Demoralization and terror}}
== Fascist electoral gains ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascist electoral gains}}
== Fascist apparatus ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascist apparatus}}
== The failed general strike ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/The failed general strike}}
== Fascist promises vs. performance ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascist promises vs performance}}
== Fascism’s contradictions ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascism s contradictions}}
== Proletarian awakening ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Proletarian awakening}}
== Who will topple fascism? ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Who will topple fascism}}
== Fascism in Germany ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Fascism in Germany}}
== Combating fascism’s appeal ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Combating fascism s appeal}}
== To the masses! ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/To the masses}}
== Workers’ self-defense and the united front ==
{{Library:Fighting_Fascism:_How_to_Struggle_and_How_to_Win/Workers self defense and the united front}}
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