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by 1935 the Communist International defined fascism not as a psychological or exclusively cultural phenomenon but as a repressive form of dictatorship serving the interests of a segment of reactionary and imperialist economic elites.
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Fascism, Dimitrov declared, was “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, and most imperialist elements of finance capital.”
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Gramsci observed that fascism was not a “pre-democratic regime” which would one day mature into a liberal democracy but instead was “the expression of the most advanced stage of development of capitalist society.”