Democracy, Bonapartism and Fascism: Class Struggle in the 1930s

“In a word, if in the pacific and ‘organic’ period (before the war) one could still live on the revenue from a few ready-made abstractions, in our time each new event forcefully brings home the most important law of the dialectic: The truth is always concrete.” — Trotsky

The inter-war years were a time of deep crisis, class struggle and revolutionary opportunities.

The economic crisis produced a crisis of democracy itself. The ruling class, with nothing to offer, ran out of means to keep the ...