Communist Labor Party of Türkiye/Leninist
Dear Comrades,
Just as Marx began his analysis of capitalism with the commodity, the Communist International (Comintern) based its analysis of fascism on the study of monopoly capitalism. Thus, to understand fascism’s global situation today, we must start from the current state of monopoly capitalism, finance capital, and the capitalist mode of production worldwide. However, a detailed examination is impossible in this brief speech, so we will summarize our views as follows in a series of key points:
1) In the 90 years since the Comintern analyzed fascism, capitalist commodity production, the social productivity of labor, and the development of productive forces have reached unprecedented scales. Parallel to this—and as its result—capital accumulation and its concentration in the hands of a few monopolies have grown to magnitudes incomparable to Lenin’s era of imperialism.
2) This historical development has generated staggering wealth on one pole and staggering misery on the other. The contradiction now shakes capitalism to its foundations. The productive forces, having outgrown the capitalist mode of production that encases them like a suffocating shell, are fracturing it at every seam. The great social upheavals we witness today stem from this contradiction demanding resolution by humanity itself. Across the world, the working class, laborers, and oppressed peoples are rising against capitalism.
The process of dispossession of the dispossessed, which started with the 1917 October Revolution, is no longer confined to individual nations but has become a global phenomenon. This marks a new era/phase in history, as noted by Communist Labor Party of Türkiye/Leninist in the late 1990s. Lenin’s proclamation of imperialism’s collapse in 1917 heralded a new stage in the transition to socialism. Today, proletarian revolutions advance on a world scale.
3) Seven or eight years after the bourgeoisie declared the “end of history” (1991), NATO admitted the 21st century would be a century of revolts” and prepared to crush them. On September 11, 2001, U.S. imperialism formalized this by declaring a “global civil war.”
4) Monopoly capital, now concentrated in a handful of imperialist powers, can no longer sustain its growth through old methods of exploitation (e.g., indirect “dependency”). To survive, it imposes “full economic annexation” on nations within the capitalist system.
5) Nations resisting this policy faced bombardment, occupation, partition, or dismemberment. Examples:
• Yugoslavia: Bombed and dismantled via fascist militias and collaborators.
• Russia: NATO besieged it in 1999 after it rejected annexation and ousted traitor Yeltsin.
• Iraq/Afghanistan: Occupied militarily.
• Libya: Destroyed by NATO and religious-fascist proxies after Gaddafi’s refusal.
• Syria: Proxy war waged with global jihadist gangs.
• Ukraine: The elected Yanukovych was overthrown by the fascist “Maidan coup” for resisting plunder at the hands of the EU.
6) Fascism’s class basis is monopoly capital; its essence is a counterrevolutionary, anti-communist movement. While its forms vary by country and era, this core remains. Thus, reducing fascism to its 20th-century German/Italian/Spanish variants is a mistake.
7) U.S. hegemony and imperialism are collapsing. The revolutionary situation has emerged globally. Social revolutions and popular uprisings are an actual fact on every continent. To halt this, monopolies deploy fascism as a counterrevolutionary weapon, mobilizing transnational fascist forces (e.g., Boko Haram, ISIS, neo-Nazis). In this sense, fascism now operates as an “international reactionary front”.
8) The latest vivid example of this is Ukraine. The imperialists not only brought the neo-Nazis to power with the fascist Maidan coup. Or, in the words of the Kremlin, they did not stop at organizing Ukraine as an “anti-Russian” state. At the same time, with the “Special Military Operation” launched by the Russian Federation to protect the people of Donbass from genocide, they cast away all the false veils of democracy and human rights. In continental Europe, in the notorious “social democratic Scandinavia”, they launched an unprecedented “anti-Russian witch hunt”, while revealing their true intentions, rooted in a deep anti-communism, anti-Sovietism. They set out to rewrite history. In the words of Baerbock, the granddaughter of a committed Nazi, they raised the Nazi swastika without shame or embarrassment. All this is a declaration that the imperialist states have reached a new level in their relation with fascism.
The war in Ukraine has stripped away of all the veils of the anti-communist and anti-Soviet genetic essence of the imperialist West. Once again, fascism is embedded in monopoly capitalism and comes to the fore in all bourgeois states—even the “most democratic”— when crisis demands!
9) The international communist movement must practically respond to this counter-revolutionary, anti-communist policy of the world bourgeoisie with the consciousness of communist international solidarity. Working peoples and young revolutionary forces are fighting voluntarily against fascism and the forces of counter-revolution. We know of the international fighters fighting for the Lugansk and Donesk People’s Republics. Revolutionaries, including our comrades, rushed to Rojava to fight against ISIS and the fascist Turkish state. In the past, we know that the International Brigades were formed against Franco fascism. We know about the international fighters, including our comrades, who fought for the Palestinian Revolution against Israeli Zionism in Palestine. But now, unfortunately, very little of this movement is organized and most of it is unorganized, spontaneous.
It has become the unenviable task of the communist, revolutionary parties to reverse this situation, to give an organized expression to this international solidarity, to give life once again to the internationalist revolutionary spirit of comrades Fidel and Che.
10) The revolutionary situation has matured around the world. Communist parties must overthrow the bourgeois governments through a revolution and establish the rule of the working class and working people. Anti-fascist struggle is inseparable from smashing monopoly capital—its class foundation. The goal is not “bourgeois democracy” but the overthrow of the capitalist mode of production and the rule of the capitalist class, and the establishment of socialism through “revolutionary popular governments”.
In closing, we would like to express our love, gratitude and thanks to Comrade Stalin, who chased Hitler and European fascism to its lair and destroyed it; to the Soviet Red Army that fought under his leadership; to the working class and toiling peoples of the Soviet Union who trained this army and sacrificed 27 million of their children in this war. Much is demanded of those who make enormous sacrifices. The Soviet Red Army and the peoples of the Soviet Union have given us so much, and we owe it to them to uphold their cause and carry forward the banner of victory at the cost of our blood.
We will win, communism will win!
With love and respect to all.