Du Bois saw communism and fascism as twin radical responses to democracy’s exhaustion.

Evidence

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

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compressed, surprising periodization tying communism’s obsolescence to ninety years of social change — dense political analysis.
• XREF: Echoes Robinson’s larger thesis that Marxism itself was a Western construct ill-fitted to the colonial world and the Black radical tradition.