It’s important to keep in mind that fascists appeal to real demands, not only hatred and fear as Georgi Dimitrov explains. Today, fascists portray themselves as a champions of those left out of the post-industrial economy, as a voice for workers who saw their jobs outsourced and their communities devastated. If socialists are to be succeed then they need to focus on having an economic vision that inspires people and that’s able to counter right wing narrative.
One of the things that radicalised me was observing the yearly fash independence day (next one day after tomorrow) march in Poland. They went on streets loudly chanting the usual fash slogans, but among them prominent were the yells about going to smash and burn banks, corpos, cops, etc. Directly after that they very peacefully passed all the banks, corpos, cops, etc. and smashed a squat.
