Du Bois grouped Russian communism and fascism as oligarchic anti-democratic responses
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When now the realities of the situation were posed to men, two radical solutions were suddenly resorted to: Russian communism and fascism. They both did away with democracy, and substituted oligarchic control of government and industry of thought and action. Communism aimed at eventual democracy and even elimination of the state, but sought this by a dogmatic program, laid down ninety years ago by a great thinker, but largely invalidated by nearly a century of extraordinary social change. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1116
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