
From Liberalism to Fascism: An Analysis of the Social Basis of Fascism
Analyzes fascism as a historically intelligible response of capital in crisis when liberal forms of rule fail to contain class contradictions.
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Analyzes fascism as a historically intelligible response of capital in crisis when liberal forms of rule fail to contain class contradictions.

Cabral argues that anticolonial movements must create their own organizational forms, not mimic existing electoral politics. And that cultural resistance and autonomous mass organizations must be a key part of social transformation.

Analyzes liberalism through historical materialism, tracing its origins from feudalism to capitalism and arguing that liberal rights fundamentally serve private property interests.

Lenin's foundational text argues that the revolution cannot use the tools of bourgeois democracy for socialist purposes; he insists the state must be smashed and replaced by a true dictatorship of the proletariat.
The global left-right ideological spectrum has fractured as post-Cold War globalization declined, creating a new ideological landscape with China reshaping the 21st-century world order.

Argues that in Latin America, the ruling classes maintain power through military force and rigged electoral systems. Therefore, waiting for an electoral majority is futile. Che asserts that the people must seize power through armed insurrection.

Hakim argues that liberalism functions as a tool for imperialism, colonialism, and economic exploitation through mechanisms like structural adjustment programs.

Critiques Partyism as a Marxist repackaging of liberalism that reproduces its limitations and fails to provide an effective alternative for communist organizing.

The author argues that Western socialists must overcome liberal individualism and nihilism by embracing a materialist, progressive patriotism that unites diverse groups against capitalism.

The author critiques American Marxist-Leninist parties for participating in bourgeois elections, arguing that such electoralism is a form of revisionist opportunism that betrays revolutionary theory.

Examines the state of the anti-imperialist left in the global north, global political shifts, and the role of spirituality in revolutionary politics during challenging times.

The economic base is what determines the superstructure. The mode of production shapes the forms of consciousness. Our struggle for survival is the primary struggle from which all others derive. Identity politics, however, turns this all on its head.

Mamdani's Democratic Socialist agenda will face structural limitations within NYC's capitalist system that ultimately betray working class interests.

Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory exemplifies liberalism's co-optation of resistance, where representation replaces real confrontation with imperial power.