Class Fractions and Strategic Reserves: A Paradigm of the Anti-Fascist Alliance
Abstract
The concept of class fraction is, paradoxically, one of the central concepts in the strategic formulation of Marxist-Leninist currents, and is one of the Marxist concepts that has received the least attention from theorists. The perception that classes exist in concrete reality through their fractions serves as a background for the balance of the correlation of forces within the lines proposed by Lenin, and simplified in Stalin’s The Foundations of Leninism. Still, the concept of class fraction was important at the Sixth International Congress, also known as the Communist International (IC), and had important consequences in the resolutions of the Seventh Congress of 1935, when Dimitrov gained prominence in leading the international communist movement. The concept of class fractions has been quite dear to anti-fascist and anti-imperialist movements around the world because it allows us to locate the so-called “strategic reserve of the revolution”, that is, forces that, while not being revolutionary, could be ally with the revolutionaries, if they were able to embrace the agenda for these desired layers.
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