Oct 21, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 14 segments
We made it, folks! Chapter 12 is the final chapter of the very important 1935 book by R Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social Revolution. Please leave a comment, and let me know what you took from this book…
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We are finally finishing the book we have been working on for months, R. Palma Dutt's Fascism and Social Revolution.
Today we are going to cover all 19 pages of chapter 12, the final chapter, which is also titled Fascism and Social Revolution.
It's such an important book that I think everyone should read or listen to me read.
But let's go ahead and knock out this final chapter and then we can move on to other important things to study because there's always something else to study.
It is useless to discuss abstractly, as in a schoolroom, alternative forms of fascism, democracy, dictatorship, et cetera, without regard to the actual situation and general line of capitalism in the present period.
Of capitalism passing into the period of the proletarian revolution, when it can no longer maintain its power by the old means, but is compelled to resort to ever more violent methods for the suppression of all working class organization, and also for the attempted authoritarian economic unification and organization of its own anarchy, in a last desperate effort to maintain its existence and master the contradictions that are rending it.
when the whole objective situation calls for the proletarian revolution as the only final solution and ever more visibly raises the issue of the struggle for power, but when the working class movement is not yet strong enough and ready, owing to being disorganized and paralyzed by reformism, and thus lets the initiative pass to capitalism.
Fascism, as Clara Zetkin declared in 1923, quote, is the punishment of the proletariat for failing to carry on the revolution begun in Russia, end quote.
Fascism is the abortion consequent on a miscarriage of the proletarian revolution.
But fascism cannot solve the contradictions or prevent the collapse of capitalism.
On the contrary, Fascism carries the contradictions both within the capitalist world and between the two worlds since 1917.
Fascism brings an extreme intensification of the class struggle and of the process of revolutionization.
Fascist tendencies are not peculiar on the countries of completed fascist dictatorship, to Germany, Austria, and Italy, or Poland, Hungary, etc.
Fascist tendencies are common in greater or less degree to all modern capitalism.
including Western Europe and America, wherever the process of decay and advance of the class struggle have reached a certain point and advance in proportion as working class resistance is paralyzed or weakened by reformism.
We are finally finishing the book we have been working on for months, R. Palma Dutt's Fascism and Social Revolution.
Today we are going to cover all 19 pages of chapter 12, the final chapter, which is also titled Fascism and Social Revolution.
It's such an important book that I think everyone should read or listen to me read.
But let's go ahead and knock out this final chapter and then we can move on to other important things to study because there's always something else to study.
It is useless to discuss abstractly, as in a schoolroom, alternative forms of fascism, democracy, dictatorship, et cetera, without regard to the actual situation and general line of capitalism in the present period.
Of capitalism passing into the period of the proletarian revolution, when it can no longer maintain its power by the old means, but is compelled to resort to ever more violent methods for the suppression of all working class organization, and also for the attempted authoritarian economic unification and organization of its own anarchy, in a last desperate effort to maintain its existence and master the contradictions that are rending it.
when the whole objective situation calls for the proletarian revolution as the only final solution and ever more visibly raises the issue of the struggle for power, but when the working class movement is not yet strong enough and ready, owing to being disorganized and paralyzed by reformism, and thus lets the initiative pass to capitalism.
Fascism, as Clara Zetkin declared in 1923, quote, is the punishment of the proletariat for failing to carry on the revolution begun in Russia, end quote.
Fascism is the abortion consequent on a miscarriage of the proletarian revolution.
But fascism cannot solve the contradictions or prevent the collapse of capitalism.
On the contrary, Fascism carries the contradictions both within the capitalist world and between the two worlds since 1917.
Fascism brings an extreme intensification of the class struggle and of the process of revolutionization.
Fascist tendencies are not peculiar on the countries of completed fascist dictatorship, to Germany, Austria, and Italy, or Poland, Hungary, etc.
Fascist tendencies are common in greater or less degree to all modern capitalism.
including Western Europe and America, wherever the process of decay and advance of the class struggle have reached a certain point and advance in proportion as working class resistance is paralyzed or weakened by reformism.
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