Writes Rick Rozoff:

This may be arcane but is relevant. In 1935 the Communist International (Comintern) held its last congress (in emergency session) after the rise of Nazism had followed that of Fascism in Italy a decade earlier. In what may have been the most significant report, that of Bulgarian representative Georgi Dimitrov, the latter spoke of the ascendence of Nazism, and said something to this effect: That during the crushing depression in Germany in the early 1930s lines outside the unemployment offices ran for blocks. The Communist agitators frequently belabored the unemployed workers with obscure details of the last plenary session of the third presidium of the Central Committee, etc. etc., while their Nazi counterparts, alluding to a high-profile murder trial of the time, said: We all know the suspect is guilty. Send him to jail and put the money that would have been spent on a trial into the unemployment fund. Dmitrov then asked, who do you think the hungry, disillusioned, desperate workers listened to?