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launched the arms race... who belong to a party with a program that is fascist in its foreign policy?

"One has only to read the positions of the last Republican convention to see its entire fascist program in foreign policy. It's not just dangerous for us; it's dangerous for the whole world."

The interview ends with this respor im Fidel Castro:

"In the future I believe there could be new leaders in the United States-more realistic, with broader vision, with more respect But the relations of domination have to go. Some day the United States will resign itself to living with revolutions in Latin America."

This perceived qualitative division within U.S. capitalism is mistaken. The designation of the Reagan administration and the Republican party as carrying out a "fascist" foreign policy originates in the world Stalinist movement led by the bureaucracies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. They are the chief rationalizers for class-collaboration and betrayal of the world working class.

The function of this designation is to justify granting political support to one faction of the bosses against another. In this country it is used to give support to the Democratic Party as part of a so-called all-people's front against fascism.

The "fascist" designation is unscientific as well as disorienting. As bad as the Republican wing of the U.S. capitalist class is, it is not fascist. This is not in any way to minimize the malevolence of the Republican wing. Fascism is a special political form for repressing the workers. It is based on the mobilization of declassed petty-bourgeois and lumpen-proletarian masses in a demagogically radical mass movement.

Such an extra-legal social movement is used as a battering ram for the destruction of the defensive institutions of the workers and thus for a qualitative reduction in their living standards—all in the service of capitalist profit.

Fascist methods are a last resort for capitalism since it is extremely costly to the capitalists. They pay the heavy price of handing over political control to a band of gangsters. The fascist-led mobs, while protecting the capitalist right to expropriate the surpluses created by the workers and farmers, will seize the choicest morsels for the fascist regime.

There is no strategic difference between the U.S. capitalists over foreign or domestic policy-although tactical differences between capitalists certainly do exist. It is possible to take advantage of such tactical differences as was done by the U.S. anti-Vietnam war movement. too, show themselves to be determined