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Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

By: Leon Trotsky
Narrated by: Darnel Stone
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Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger.

Public Domain (P)2020 Historical Recordings Politics & Government World Imperialism War

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The audio production of this is very poor.
Some of the pronunciation is wrong. Lots of the stresses are in the wrong place.
The last section is unedited so we see the voice actor’s mistakes and second attempts.
Essential reading - buy the paper version - but it deserves better than this.

World historic material let down by poor audio

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While Trotsky's writings on this subject are extremely important and acerbic, even in the context of the modern age, the performance of this audiobook is particularly poor. There are many, many mispronunciations, rushed and garbled sentences, and the last chapter is completely unedited, and you can hear the narrator stopping when he misreads a passage, clapping to signal an edit to be made, and starting the sentence again; this happens at least three times and breaks up the flow of the paragraphs considerably. Unfortunately, this very much soured the experience.

Poor performance of an essential work

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Woeful performance bungled to the point of ruin, stripping Trotsky's razor sharp observations of meaning in a rush to reach the end. Tempting to think it was a race to see how many more he could toss off in a day, so much so that they didn't even bother to edit the hand claps from the last essay and left the fumbled words and breaks in to stand as an epitaph to a great work sullied.

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A Marxist analysis of what is Fascism and how to fight it. Extremely relevant today.

Key Text for anyone wanting to stop the far-right

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