Anti-fascism between liberalism, anti-racism and class struggle
Lecture by Eleonora Roldán Mendívil on the topic Anti-fascism between liberalism, anti-racism and class struggle. Part of Anti-fascism in the 21st Century, a lecture series organised by Niki Kubaczek, Dirk Lange, Ruth Sonderegger, Malte Kleinschmidt, Ulrich Brand and Nanna Heidenreich. A collaboration between: Democracy Centre Vienna, transversal texts, University of Vienna, annd the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
From a Marxist perspective, liberalism is to be criticised as a form of bourgeois rule that, in times of crisis, readily turns into authoritarian or fascist developments. Anti-fascism, like anti-racism, must guard against merely repeating liberalism – and thus bourgeois rule – as a purely moral stance. Instead, as the lecture will argue, anti-fascism must be understood as the organisation of the exploited and oppressed, employing anti-racist strategies against the power of capital.