While there are many important parallels, there are also crucial differences between the current crisis and the situation in the 1930s.
Unlike the historical defeats suffered by the working class that enabled Hitler's rise, the working class today—both in America and internationally—is not demoralized or defeated.
On the contrary, workers are increasingly radicalized and entering into powerful social struggles. The recent mass protests across the US on April 5 and again on April 19, drawing millions into the streets against Trump's attacks on democratic rights and immigrants, demonstrate the immense potential power of the working class.
However, this spontaneous movement urgently requires political clarity and organization to effectively oppose fascism and dictatorship. The objective strength of the working class must find political expression.
As North explained in his recent interview, "If you want to fight, you have to understand what you're fighting. You have to turn to the working class... It means you take up a fight for Marxist consciousness in the working class, for the development of scientifically grounded class consciousness.
"To oppose fascism at its roots is to oppose the economic foundations upon which fascism develops and to which fascism is committed"—that is, capitalism.
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