Fascism Quotes

“Both theoretical analysis as well as the rich historical experience of the last quarter of a century have demonstrated with equal force that fascism is each time the final link of a specific political cycle composed of the following: the gravest crisis of capitalist society; the growth of the radicalization of the working class; the growth of sympathy toward the working class, and a yearning for change on the part of the rural and urban petty bourgeoisie; the extreme confusion of the big bourgeoisie; its cowardly and treacherous maneuvers aimed at avoiding the revolutionary climax; the exhaustion of the proletariat; growing confusion and indifference; the aggravation of the social crisis; the despair of the petty bourgeoisie, its yearning for change; the collective neurosis of the petty bourgeoisie, its readiness to believe in miracles, its readiness for violent measures; the growth of hostility towards the proletariat, which has deceived its expectations. These are the premises for a swift formation of a fascist party and its victory.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

“The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state is a bourgeois cop, not a worker.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

“fascism comes only when the working class shows complete incapacity to take into its own hands the fate of society.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

“He who thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle, for the spirit does not live without the flesh.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

“In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

“We may set it down as a historical law: fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where the conservative labor parties prevented the proletariat from utilizing the revolutionary situation and seizing power.”
― Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It