ABSTRACT
In this letter, Chen argues that bourgeois democracy is more conducive to the emergence of socialist democracy than is Fascism or Stalinism, and that therefore revolutionaries cannot but side with democracy against Fascism and Stalinism. Lenin had proposed a defeatist policy for workers under capitalism everywhere, on the grounds that defeat would trigger and permit workers’ revolutions. But, says Chen, Lenin was speaking before the birth of Fascism.
