...fascism is not an ordinary succession of one bourgeois government by another, but a substitution for one state form of class domination of the bourgeoisie—bourgeois...democracy—by another formopen terrorist dictatorship. Georgi Dimitrov, 1935' From July 25 to August 20, 1935, delegates from sixty-five Communist parties...

...Against Fascism and War," was novel in emphasis, not in content. Dimitrov stressed that fascism was a "substitution of one state form of class domination of the bourgeoisie—bourgeois democracy— by another form—open terrorist dictatorship." 28 Hence, it was not a matter of indifference...