1/ @jimmy_dore isn't the first middle class pseudo-radical to think they can outsmart the laws of history by joining hands with fascists. Here's how Trotsky answered the same arguments 90 years ago:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1931/310414.htm
2/ "'The people’s revolution' – as a slogan and even with a reference to Lenin. Yet every issue of the paper of the fascist Strasser is embellished with the slogan of the people’s revolution as opposed to the Marxist slogan of the class revolution."
3/ "In order that the nation should indeed be able to reconstruct itself around a new class core, it must be reconstructed ideologically and this can be achieved only if the proletariat does not dissolve itself into the 'people, into the 'nation'"...
4/ ..."but on the contrary develops a program of its proletarian revolution and compels the petty bourgeoisie to choose between two regimes."
5/ "The slogan of the people’s revolution lulls the petty bourgeoisie as well as the broad masses of the workers, reconciles them to the bourgeois-hierarchical structure of the 'people' and retards their liberation."
6/ "...[T]he slogan of a 'people’s revolution' wipes away the ideological demarcation between Marxism and fascism and reconciles part of the workers and the petty bourgeoisie to the ideology of fascism, allowing them to think that they are not compelled to make a choice"...
7/ ..."because in both camps it is all a matter of a people’s revolution."
8/ "These wretched revolutionists, in a conflict with any serious enemy, think first of all of how to imitate him, how to repaint themselves in his colors, and how to win the masses by means of a smart trick and not by revolutionary struggle."
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