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Don’t Underestimate the Split Between Liberal and Fascist US Bosses
The recent assassinations of two Democratic politicians in Minnesota—and the wounding of two more—highlight a deepening, violent split within the US ruling class. Some still insist this is mere ‘political theater,’ a spectacle meant to distract the masses. That view is outdated and dangerous. The stakes are growing, and the contradiction between liberal and fascist factions is escalating into open conflict.
The fascist wing, led by Trump and supported by a section of billionaires, is building a political movement rooted in terror, racism, and dictatorship. Their strategy is not just electoral— they are organizing paramilitary groups, reshaping the courts, and taking over local and state governments. Their ultimate goal is to crush mass resistance and reforge the capitalist state on openly authoritarian foundations.
Liberal capitalists oppose this—for now. Not because they support the working class, but because they fear fascism will destabilize US capitalism and provoke unrest. They prefer to rule through deception, elections, and the illusion of democracy. Their system is no less exploitative, but it relies more on consent than coercion.
This split within the ruling class has clear historical precedents. In 1930s Germany and Italy, fascists gained power with direct support from ruling-class factions. In Britain and France, liberal capitalists managed to suppress their own fascist movements, though not without considerable struggle. These were not differences of tone or personality— they reflected divergent strategies for preserving capitalist power.
In Spain, the conflict turned into a full-scale civil war. Tragically, the communists joined forces with liberal Republicans to defend the capitalist republic. Rather than fighting for communist revolution, they ended up defending bourgeois democracy. This alliance demobilized the working class and paved the way for Franco’s fascist victory. It is a sharp warning: when communists fight for liberalism instead of against capitalism, the result is defeat.
Today, liberal resistance to fascism is again real—and that makes it especially dangerous for our movement. If we deny the difference between fascists and liberals, we lose credibility with workers who see that difference in their daily lives. At the same time, if we tail the liberals, we fail to prepare for revolution. Our task is to expose both factions—fascist and liberal—as enemies of the working class, each in their own way.
We must fight fascism with communism—not for the ‘republic’ or to defend liberal institutions, but to overthrow capitalism entirely. Only a mass revolutionary movement can stop the fascists and build a world where working people, not bosses, hold power.
That means organizing, not equivocating; speaking truth, not slogans; and preparing now for the battles to come.
—Comrade in Canada
Let’s Fight for Communism and Nothing Less to Eliminate All the Bosses
All capitalists rely on racism and nationalism to divide the workers, not just some groups of capitalists.
In this period of crisis and widening world war, the entire capitalist system needs fascism. They need it to terrorize the working class, divide us, make us work for less and less pay, and push vicious racism to try to win us to kill other workers in their wars for their profits and empire, or force us to.
While it’s true that some push more open racism and fascism and others claim to oppose this, the fact is that the capitalist system is imposing fascism. They don’t have the “luxury” of giving crumbs to the masses as they prepare for World War and deepening economic crisis. Those capitalist politicians who claim to oppose the open racists and fascists are the most dangerous. They try to fool the masses into supporting capitalism, racism, war, deportations, and wage slavery. But supposedly “less fascist, more legal.”
All the ruling classes are building racism and nationalism. They all support wage slavery and paying some groups of workers less than others. Capitalism needs to divide its wage slaves to try to keep us from uniting against them. They support borders, immigration laws, deportations, and imperialist war.
The differences between open fascists like Trump and liberal politicians like Gavin Newsom (California Governor who wants to win the angry masses to support the Democratic Party) are secondary. They both support capitalism. They both hate and attack the fight for communist revolution. Their disagreements are over the tactics of fascism, not how to abolish it.
The liberal politicians tell us to be passive and just trust them in the face of growing fascism. Instead, we have confidence in the masses of workers, youth and soldiers to mobilize against fascism, racism, and imperialist war and for communism.
In the US, many are standing up to ICE. With struggle and persistence, these angry masses and those in motion worldwide mobilizing against genocide in Gaza and spreading war in Iran and Israel can be won to fight for a communist world without borders, imperialist war, and wage slavery. To turn the bosses’ war and fascism into revolution for communist workers’ power.
We need to and will clearly expose the open fascists and the social fascists (liberals) and win the masses to fight for communism.
—Comrade in the US