Trotsky defined fascism as a pseudo-socialism set up by the middle and upper classes to make themselves rich by slumming with the lower classes. some funny bits he
wrote about fascism:
"If the Communist Party, in spite of the exceptionally favorable circumstances, has proved powerless seriously to shake the structure of the social democracy with the aid of the formula of "social fascism", then real fascism now threatens this structure, no longer with wordy formulae of so-called radicalism, but with the chemical formulas of explosives. No matter how true it is that the social democracy by its whole policy prepared the blossoming of fascism, it is no less true that fascism comes forward as a deadly threat primarily to that same social democracy, all of whose magnificence is inextricably bound with parliamentary-democratic-pacifist forms and methods of government.."
Apparently Trotsky never thought he posed a 'deadly threat' to all those people he was killing. Deadly threats are for fascists!
Goe, not a signatory to the Warsaw Pact.
