The Race to Fascism-“Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism”

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https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hconres9/BILLS-118hconres9ih.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front#:~:text=On%202%20May%2C%201933%2C%20trade,to%20cooperate%20with%20the%20Nazis.

In an article from the World Socialist Web Site titled:
“The specter of socialism haunts US Congress”

Last week, as the US Congress discussed approving billions more dollars in weapons for the war against Russia and began negotiating cuts to social programs in advance of the debt ceiling expiration, the House spent three days discussing and adopting a resolution denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The media presents the passage of the resolution as nothing more than a propaganda ploy by the far-right Republicans, but it is much more than that. By dedicating a substantial portion of its legislative agenda to a condemnation of socialism, the US Congress expresses the fear within the ruling class that a powerful socialist movement will take root in the working class and orient the emerging wave of strikes and social struggles in a revolutionary direction.

The three-page resolution, titled “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism,” recites a century of lies about socialism promulgated by fascist White Russian émigrés, Hitler and the John Birch society.

The vote was overwhelming, with 328 voting in support and 86 against. Republicans voted 219-0 in favor of the resolution and were joined by a majority of Democrats, 109 of whom voted in favor with 86 against....