The origin of the Fascist International

Published at: 04/10/2024 05:00 PM

Fascism is a phenomenon that historically dates back to Europe, in the period between the two World Wars, however, the false belief of the profound domination of capitalism and the imperial advance that we are experiencing today, forces us to review that shameful moment.

To better understand the fascist advance in the region, this year the researcher Diego González Porras developed a work called Fascists of Latin America in the 1930s published in the Emergency Papers by the Center for Decolonization in which he explained that “historical fascism was marked in the imaginary of humanity by the regime of hate established by Hitler and Mussolini and that it came to be identified with evil, expressed in genocide guided by racist supremacy, the totalitarianism and violence”.

Also, the Martinique intellectual and politician, Aimé Cesaire, commented that “the horrors of Nazism had been exercised by the European powers, undisguised and viciously, against their colonies, especially when they rose up or were averse to domination”.

With this clear, mention should be made of the crimes committed by the European powers against the original peoples of America, the barbarities they carried out in Africa and Asia against Vietnamese and Malagasy people, or in the Congo with the extermination and exploitation led by the king of the Belgians and in the massive massacres in China , in which the Americans, the Japanese, the Germans, the British and, in general, all the colonial powers that were fighting for the loot participated.

Researcher González Porras also emphasized that “the European bourgeoisie, after all, what does not forgive Hitler is not the crime itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man himself, but the crime against the white man, it is the humiliation of the white man and having applied colonialist procedures in Europe that until now only they concerned the Arabs of Algeria, the Coolies of India and the blacks of Africa, that is the tone of his discourse on colonialism”.

González Porras recalled that fascism and Nazism arise as a reaction to the rebellion of their peoples, “ Italian fascism is born of unemployed workers and soldiers with no hope of finding a place in war-torn Italy; with the sympathy of the middle sectors that aroused their panic in the face of the revolution. It began as shock groups against strikes and factory councils, against communists and socialists; by sticks they impose themselves and place themselves at the service of the bourgeoisie; it was not in vain that Mussolini went so far as to say that fascism does not have a fully defined ideology, his philosophy is action”, he stressed.

The bourgeoisie is fascism's best ally and uses its assassins to preserve its power and wealth, to crush the rebellious people. In the same way, Hitler and the Nazis followed. Also, Franco in Spain rose up against the Republic and the threat it posed to the forces that had traditionally dominated those lands.

In Latin America, kidnapped by big capital and powers or superpowers such as colonies, semicolonies or neocolonies, the recourse of violence, extermination or repression makes a difference, and that is that the fundamental support for these regimes is that of imperialism.

Even in America, we can remember when in El Salvador in 1932 tens of thousands of people were exterminated after a peasant rebellion, through a clearly documented practice of forcing those who would later be shot to dig their own graves and almost the entire indigenous Nahua-speaking population was exterminated.

The main support for these dictatorships, before the First World War, was distributed among the colonial powers (United States , Great Britain, France, Italy) ...); after the Second World War, with the consolidation of the United States as a hegemonic imperialist power, support for dictatorships in the region was no longer distributed, all have been sponsored by the US government. Not by chance, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created after the Second World War.

Several authors agree on the identification of the common features of fascism: the cult of violence, contempt for the working class, the postulation of the supremacy of one human group over others, for example, the so-called white supremacy that attempts to revive Trump, or the supremacy of decent people, racism, the invention of an enemy of humanity, such as communism.

The writer Jesús Eloy Gutiérrez published in 2010 a book called Catholicism and Fascism in the Spanish-American Catholic press during the interwar period: Venezuela and Spain, in which he explained that “in Ibero-America, immediately after the March on Rome, the fascist ideology began to be known and to gain followers”; the expansion of these ideas in Latin America was the responsibility of the Catholic Church, whose hierarchy showed a preference for strong regimes opposed to democracy, liberalism, socialism and communism.

that in Venezuela, these messages came through the newspaper La Religión, spokesperson for the Venezuelan Catholic Church, in which in 1927 editorials were published praising Mussolini, where they referred to the Italian as “an illustrious statesman, enlightened and Italian head of state, whose personality powerfully attracts the attention of the entire world because he is one of those privileged brains, endowed with the most enviable gifts of regenerating peoples who sacrificed their own personal comforts to guide the lofty destinies of their homeland”.

This is how fascism began to be structured in an ideology that seeks to return to times of domination and colonialism, the problem they have now is that the Peoples are no longer the same, they are willing to be free, independent and sovereign because history reminds us of what we have been through and achieved, which today, we are not willing to lose.

AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team