From Social Democracy to Fascism

Stalinist theory held that social democacy was a form of fascism, whose purpose was to fool the workers.

Your challange however is that a with a POD in 1926 that a Social Democratic party undergoes a ideological shift and becomes fascist.
 
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Making communist history-thinking making sence might be funny at times.

Nils Flyg did it. He was a social democrat before the party split when the communists started their own party and somehow ended up a nazi. Gunnar and Alva Myrdal wrote about eugenics and stuff so they might do. And if you add up all the bad stuff happening in Sweden, from say 1935 to 1985, you get a nasty list, quite similar to the US during the same period.
 
Stalinist theory held that social democacy was a form of fascism, whose purpose was to fool the workers, this was false.
Only in the Third Period. During the Popular Front Stalinists were supposed to make lovey-dovey with the Social Democrats, who were magically transformed from bitterest enemies and quasi-fascists into natural allies in the fight against fascism.

The thing to remember is that Stalinism never was a self-consistent ideology and that all of this was motivated essentially by machiavellian politics.
 
Only in the Third Period. During the Popular Front Stalinists were supposed to make lovey-dovey with the Social Democrats, who were magically transformed from bitterest enemies and quasi-fascists into natural allies in the fight against fascism.

The thing to remember is that Stalinism never was a self-consistent ideology and that all of this was motivated essentially by machiavellian politics.

Most Popular Fronts were temporary coalitions however, look what happened in France under Blum, the Communists have never been friends with the Socialists since.

Anyway, the challenge!

"The 1926 General Strike resulted in a massive crisis for the Labour Party, despite never giving their support to the movement, the fact remained that Ramsay MacDonald and his supporters had been vilified by the national press as "communists" and "revolutionaries", in a shock move, MacDonald resigned as the strike ended after a particularly bile filled article in the Daily Mirror. As the winter of 1926 dragged on, the Labour Party underwent a crisis from which many felt it would never recover. Under the leadership of the Gladstonian Philip Snowden, the party lost almost all support that it had from the left wing who felt betrayed by their abandonment by a nominal workers party.

It was in January of 1927 that the newly re-elected MP, Oswald Mosley, stepped into the yawning chasm left by the departure of most of the front bench..."

-From "A Radical Departure: Britain in the 1930's"
 

Sachyriel

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How about we start off as if we're explaining these differences to someone whose never heard these terms before and work from there?
 

wormyguy

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How about we start off as if we're explaining these differences to someone whose never heard these terms before and work from there?
No, because while listening to lefties debate what the exact definition of Fascism is is slightly entertaining, listening to them debate the definition of Social Democracy is boring as fuck.
 

Sachyriel

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No, because while listening to lefties debate what the exact definition of Fascism is is slightly entertaining, listening to them debate the definition of Social Democracy is boring as fuck.

You typo, but all I hear is "blah bah blah'. However you know there is a scroll bar at the right hand side of your browser?:confused:
 
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