Question for Trotskyists

[La Comédie Noire]

In "Fascism: What it is and how to fight it." Trotsky makes a parallel between the Jacobins and the Fascists.

What did he mean by that? Like I thought I understood it, but now that I'm reading about the French Revolution more in depth I'm not so sure.

[Yehuda Stern]

What Trotsky meant is that the radical wing of the bourgeois revolutions had the same social base as the fascist parties - the impoverished middle class and petit-bourgeoisie.

[La Comédie Noire]

Thank You Yehuda! :)

I thought that, but I wasn't so sure. I read a lot of Trotsky's writings on National Socialism and Germany. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something I was missing.