Abstract
Moreover his analysis of Nazism lost some of its force by his dogmatic insistence on organically identifying fascism with the last-ditch struggle of moribund capitalism. This prevented him from fully perceiving the more modern political and technical attributes of Nazi methods of domination and its ability to embrace all sections of the German population and integrate them into the totalitarian structure of the state. But it did not prevent him from subjecting the official communist interpretation of fascism to a penetrating critique for its abstract formalism and inability to differentiate between particular stages and varieties of the fascist phenomenon. In this respect and in his prognoses concerning the development of fascism after 1930, Trotsky's analysis stands favourable comparison with the more sophisticated theories of independent Marxist thinkers like August Thalheimer and Otto Bauer.3 Its significance lay less in Trotsky's 157
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