Red Rick

The first and main feature of our Red Army is that it is an army of liberated workers and peasants, it is the army of the October Revolution, the army of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

All armies that have existed under capitalism to this day, no matter what their composition, are armies of the assertion of the power of capital. They were and remain armies of the domination of capital. The bourgeoisie of all countries lie when they say that the army is politically neutral. This is not true. In bourgeois states the army is deprived of political rights, it is removed from the political arena. This is true. But this does not mean at all that it is politically neutral. On the contrary, always and everywhere, in all capitalist countries, the army has been and is being drawn into the political struggle, serving as an instrument for the suppression of the workers. Is it not true that the army suppresses the workers there, that it serves as a stronghold of the masters there?

Unlike such armies, our Red Army has the peculiarity that it is an instrument for the establishment of the power of the workers and peasants, an instrument for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, an instrument for the liberation of the workers and peasants from the yoke of the landowners and capitalists.

Our army is the army of liberation of the workers

....most writers have ignored fascism's close collaboration with big business. Some even argue that business was not a beneficiary but a victim of fascism. Angelo Codevilla, a Hoover Institute conservative scribe, blithely announced: "If fascism means anything, it means government ownership and control of business". Thus fascism is misrepresented as a mutant form of socialism. In fact, if fascism means anything, it means all-out government support for business and severe repression of antibusiness, pro-labour forces.

Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism's raison d'être, the function Hitler himself kept referring to when he talked about saving the industrialists and bankers from Bolshevism. It is a subject that deserves far more attention than it has received.