To Ernst Thälmann, the founder of the original Antifaschistische Aktion, the word 'fascist' referred to anyone who was not a Stalinist willing to fully adopt the current platform and slogans pushed by the Comintern. The (classical) liberal and the socialist parties of that time in Germany were his bitterest enemies, more so than the NSDAP which he considered to be at least another "party of the people" with which he could cooperate towards the common goal of getting the then social-democrat ruling coalition out of office.
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To Ernst Thälmann, the founder of the original Antifaschistische Aktion, the word 'fascist' referred to anyone who was not a Stalinist willing to fully adopt the current platform and slogans pushed by the Comintern. The (classical) liberal and the socialist parties of that time in Germany were his bitterest enemies, more so than the NSDAP which he considered to be at least another "party of the people" with which he could cooperate towards the common goal of getting the then social-democrat ruling coalition out of office.
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