anarchist groups or companies, you may call them anything you wish, but it will have to be an armed power in order to fight?"
"Yes," they answered, "it will be necessary."
"Will you be able to fight if you will not centralize your apparatus, if you will have no organization, if you. will be unable to weld the proletariat into groups, battalions, etc.?"
When we came to this point the anarchists dismissed all logic and stated—"We are against organized violence, the workers should defend individually their factories and shops, every state is a vampire, every army, including the Red one, is aimed against the working class," etc.
This anarchist ideology which finds sympathy in some circles of the French workers, represents a counter-revolutionary ideology, for it strives to distract the workers from the possibility of revolution. Those labor organizations which do not have as their aim the organization of the proletariat in such a way that it may be able to hold in its hands the seized factories and shops, are aiming at defeat and not at victory.
All this talk of the anarchists is in direct contradiction with the construction and aims of those international organizations which approach the methods of struggle not metaphysically, but are striving, from the given relation of forces, to reach a necessary conclusion of the struggle.
Thus, we are opposed not only to the reformist pacifists, but also to the anarchist ones, because we have never been pacifists: Pacifism is not in the nature of Communism. It has nothing in common with the revolutionary labor movmeent.
Our Struggle Against Fascism
The next question on which the revolutionary labor movement conflicts with the reformists, is the question of struggle against Fascism. What is Fascism? We have already explained it. How the reformists fight against it is also known. How do we propose to fight against Fascism? Of course, the best method, the best medicine, would be the Red Army. This is a very strong but efficient remedy. But to our regret the Red Army, so far, remains on the territory (it is true a very great one) yet of only one country.
We have to find a method of struggle where there is no Red Army, and where Fascism is fighting in order to prevent such an army. If we take the Fascist literature, we will see that Fascism very cleverly conducts its agitation and propaganda for the winning over of the working masses. We have shown above that Fascism is based mainly on the middle classes, but that at the same time is trying to penetrate the working class. Therefore, our first aim should be to drive Fascism out of the labor trenches, that is, to destroy the labor organizations created by Fascism.
