Ninety years ago today, #Hitler did not shoot his way into power. He became chancellor of Germany as the result of a criminal conspiracy of leading bourgeois politicians and a clique of capitalist financiers and industrialists. 1/
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Nine decades later, the historical rehabilitation of Hitler and the political resurgence of #Fascism is far advanced. The neo-Nazi AfD is a major political party in Germany. Academics justify Hitler's crimes as a legitimate response to the Russian Revolution. 2/
The resurgence of fascism is a global, rather than exclusively German, phenomenon. It arises from the global breakdown of #capitalism. Massive social inequality, the super-exploitation of the working class, and the launching of imperialist war is incompatible with democracy. 3/
All the political actors who played a role in Hitler's rise to power are still active today: The industrial-financial interests, the venal capitalist political parties, the pro-corporate trade union and social-democratic bureaucracies, etc. 4/
Were he alive today, the "Führer" would enthusiastically welcome the deployment of Leopard tanks. Once against Germany is marching eastward in search of capitalist "Lebensraum" (living space). 5/
On this anniversary, the lessons of the worst political catastrophe in modern history, which led to genocide and the deaths of tens of million, must be drawn. Only the conquest of power by the working class and the victory of socialism can prevent the descent into barbarism. 6/6
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