>>2257208>I hate to tell you that FDR was arguably para-FascistThat's a really strained understanding of fascism. The most basic and coherent description of it is the suspension of liberal democracy and its associated rights, separation of powers, limitations, etc in favour of open dictatorship of capital. This is done in order to crush an emerging left wing threat through state terror. Its also a petty bourgeois movement that gets absorbed by the big bourgeoisie. FDR was just a socdem, and despite people loving to quote the social fascism thesis they seem to forget that the Comintern abandoned it a couple years later because they quickly realized it was wrong and retarded. Social democracy is historically just the right wing of the worker's movement, and this describes FDR pretty well. The American communists actually reached the zenith of their influence under him, meaning that he did the opposite of what the core function of fascism is.
>>2257297>to endear himself towards left anticommunistsGotta love when people just throw words around like that, completely detached from its meaning. How exactly is "War is a Racket" a left anticommunist text? It's just a straightforward description of how imperialism serves the interests of capital from a person who had direct and intimate knowledge of it.