PARTIKULARNI ANTIFAŠIZAM
PARTICULARY ANTIFASCISM

Summary/Abstract: In this work antifascism is shown as a movement which in its original nature represented a logical opposition to fascism, but also as a hypothesis which according to its definition ultimately had to offer the realisation of full democratic freedom. However, essentially different ideological and political demands of declarative representatives of antifascism, especially prominent in the initial phase, influenced undoubtedly its longlasting lack of credibility, which was in the short period of the Second World War (1941-1945) nevertheless successfully replaced by the appearance of the real universal antifascism, originating from the necessity of defence against general fascist aggression. Within this framework Communists as a part of the antifascist movement, although losing the import of antifascist factor in the period of their collaboration (1939-1941) with the Nazi movement, won back their significant antifascist position by being forced to enter the war, later abusing it as a guise for the parallel realisation of the Communist revolution. In that way they undeniably verified the ambiguity of antifascism, i.e. clearly asserted their true ideological priority over representing and realising the complete idea of antifascism. Croatian Communists, as factors of the broader Communist movement, and also of that general, universal antifascism, represented first and foremost, accordingly to their nature, the obligatory ideological tasks which they unquestionably had to carry out, which simply meant; their behaviour could not leave the framework of strictly set principles of Communist doctrine.

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