Soviet antisemitic campaigns revived the charge that fascism equals communism

Evidence

Fears that an unambiguous rejection of the policy followed by the Russian regime and its satellites might be to the advantage of international reaction have lost any justification in a situation in which the glorifiers of the state, for whom `cosmopolitanism’ is the worst term of abuse, have succeeded in making a shameful truth out of the petit-bourgeois cliché that fascism and communism are identical. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 429

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the equivalence thesis became true rather than false—because state-communism adopted the fascist enemy-label ‘cosmopolitan’—inverts the usual left-wing defense of the early Cold War era and is worth sitting with.
• XREF: Connects to the later entries on Adorno and Horkheimer regarding orthodox Marxism as masochism and their drift from the labour movement. — connects to: Tobacco defenders equated health regulation with fascism and communism; Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 426; Israel’s 1967 victory triggered the Soviet campaign equating Israelis with Nazis (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tobacco defenders equated health regulation with fascism and communism; Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 426; Israel’s 1967 victory triggered the Soviet campaign equating Israelis with Nazis (+3 more)