Democratic Socialism
A significant current of the democratic socialist movement has defined itself in opposition to Stalinism. This includes George Orwell, H. N. Brailsford, Fenner Brockway, and the Independent Labour Party in Britain (particularly after World War II), the group around Marceau Pivert in France and, in America, the New York Intellectuals around the journals Partisan Review and Dissent. These democratic socialists saw Soviet Communism as a form of totalitarianism in some ways mirroring fascism.
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