First Published: in the American journal Living Marxism, Winter 1941; Source: John Gray's Archive; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden, for marxists.org 2003; Proofread: by Chris Clayton 2006.
“Democracy” – a self-styled name for
the traditional set-up of present day capitalist society – is
fighting a losing battle against the attacking forces of fascism (nazism,
falangism, iron guardism, and so forth). The workers stand by. They seem
to say again what their predecessors, the revolutionary workers of Paris
in 1849, said in regard to the final struggle between the leaders of a
self-defeated liberal democracy and the quasi-fascist chief of a new
Napoleonic imperialism, Louis Bonaparte.
They say (as... (From: Marxists.org.)