Anti-fascism
Anti-fascism is opposition to fascism, and the fight against it. Notable anti-fascists include Georgi Dimitrov, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin, among others. The history of anti-fascism is a long one, and has existed as long as fascism has. While most bourgeois scholars date fascism to Italy, this is untrue, as fascism (the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital[1]) has existed long before Italian fascism.
Marxism-Leninism is necessarily against fascism and, therefore, anti-fascist. The Marxist-Leninist vanguard party must lead a United Front against fascism. As Georgi Dimitrov wrote:
Neither the repulsion of the offensive of capital, nor the elimination of savage fascism, nor the staving off of the new imperialist war, not, lastly, the triumph of the liberating proletarian revolution, would be possible without a united workers’ front and the joint action of all proletarians and working people in town and village.[2]
In fighting against fascism, the people often need to take up arms, which can result in proletarian revolution, and the advent of the democratic classes joining into a revolutionary people's democracy. To quote Dimitrov again:
It is not at all that the supporters of democracy and peace are in general advocates of armed struggle, but that fascism kindles the flames of civil war against the democratic regime of the country, brings about destruction and death, and compels the people to defend their lives, their freedom and independence by taking up arms.[3]