Description Fascism\'s ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in all of history.
About the Author David Beetham is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds..
This important volume offers the most complete selection of Marxist Writings on Fascism from this Period in any language and provides invaluable lessons for contemporary readers concerned with today\'s far-right.
Their devastating failure paved the way for the gas chamber, decades of ruthless dictatorship, and war.
Yet, this catastrophic de- feat was resisted at every turn by Marxists who tried, unsuccessfully, to push the mass communist and social democratic parties to organize an opposition to the rising movements of violent reaction.
Description Fascism\'s ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in all of history
