Socialism has been presenting itself for many years as a great defender of democracy against fascism.<\/p>\n
Openly defending a 'socialist dictatorship'<\/big><\/p>\n In fact, socialism bases much of its attempts to legitimize itself on this opposition to fascism<\/strong>, as if the mere fact of being anti-fascist automatically made socialists more democratic than fascists. And this is not the case. Let us remember, for example, that a historic president of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Francisco Largo Caballero<\/strong>, openly defended a \"socialist dictatorship\"<\/a> and advocated violence to overthrow what he called \"bourgeois democracy\", in reference to the Second Republic.<\/p>\n Coincidentally, in 2021 Pedro S\u00e1nchez stated that Largo Caballero \"acted as we want to act\"<\/a>. He did not clarify whether he was referring to his defense of a dictatorship established through violence or to the coup d'\u00e9tat led in 1934 by Largo Caballero<\/a> in response to an electoral victory of the center-right<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Kicking the pillars of democracy in the name of 'anti-fascism'<\/big><\/p>\n In any case, with their attacks on the rule of law<\/strong> - the most recent his impunity law<\/a> announced this very week - S\u00e1nchez and the PSOE prove themselves to be worthy heirs of an anti-democrat like Largo Caballero<\/strong>. They are politicians who have no scruples when it comes to kicking our freedoms and the pillars of democracy. That is why they do not stop insisting that they are very anti-fascist<\/strong>, as if that excuses all the abuses they commit.<\/p>\n We must not forget that the communist dictatorship of East Germany called the Berlin Wall the \"anti-fascist protection wall\"<\/strong>, to make the inhabitants of that part of the country believe that the communists were protecting them from a threat, when in reality they were locking them up in a huge prison: freedom was what there was on the western side of the wall<\/strong>, that is why people always fled in that direction.<\/p>\n Socialist dictatorships and their cover-ups<\/big><\/p>\n As I explained here last year, there were ten dictatorships in the 20th century that bore the adjective \"socialist\" in their official name<\/a>, among them one of the largest and longest-lasting tyrannies, the USSR,<\/strong> a dictatorship that displayed purely pathological sadism and murdered more than 21 million people<\/a>. Even today, there is still a dictatorship that calls itself \"socialist\", Vietnam, and one that has a single party that calls itself \"socialist\": Venezuela.<\/p>\n In Spain, the PSOE protects the Venezuelan socialist dictatorship by refusing to condemn its repression<\/a>, thus demonstrating that between democracy and socialism, it chooses the latter. Let us also remember that in 2021, the PSOE and its communist partners voted against the European condemnation of the crimes of Nazism and Communism<\/a>, a resolution that pointed out the crimes of genocide perpetrated by both totalitarian movements. And now they talk to us about \"fascism\", when they are the closest thing there is to that in today's Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n Socialism, a substitute for fascism<\/big><\/p>\n According to the Royal Spanish Academy, \"suced\u00e1neo\" (substitute) is a substance that \"by having properties similar to those of another, can replace it.\"<\/em><\/strong> I can't think of a better way to explain the relationship between socialism and fascism. As the last century of history shows, socialism and fascism have competed to see which was the most effective in destroying democracies<\/strong>, and it must be acknowledged that socialism is demonstrating great skill in this task, disguising its abuses with words like \"democracy\", \"rights\" and \"anti-fascism\" so as not to provoke rejection<\/strong> and so that its abuses go unanswered.<\/p>\n A socialist is a person who believes that fascists are always others<\/strong>, who is always pointing out others as the enemies of democracy, when in reality his ideology is a substitute for fascism.<\/strong> In fact, both movements come from the same ideological stem and exhibit the same desire to make the State appropriate everything. Let us remember that Mussolini was a leader of the Italian Socialist Party and Hitler's party was called \"national-socialist\".<\/strong> Socialism and fascism are first cousins, which is why S\u00e1nchez and his party colleagues behave as they do in Spain.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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