Nah, Chip, Charles (who like most Old Lefties formed by the CPUSA, I tend to like in person, but, oy vey, the dusty tracts they cite! Klo McKinsey on Communist-Party at yahoogroups.com , downwithcapitalism at yahoogroups.com and Stalinist at yahoogroups.com still cites the infamous trial transcipts of the "Trotskyite-Fascist-Bukharinite Terrorist Center" from '37 as proof!) seems duty bound to cite Dimitroff. Controversies like the one over David Abraham's neo-marxist work on Weimar and the class support base for Nazism, or Richard Hamilton answering the "working class authoritarianism" thesis of Lipset in _Political Man_ in his_Who Voted For Hitler_ aren't on the radar screen.
On the tangled polemics re: Fascism and marxist interpretrations, as well as Griffin, which only Chip and I seem to have read round here, despite Chip citing him last yr., see, the Pierre Aycoberry work, translated in the late 70's, published by Pantheon or Vintage/Random House, on the contros re: Nazism and Fascism, from the 20's on, from politicos and academics (he has a newer one a social history of Nazism, too) and a book by Larry Ceplair, " Under the shadow of war : Fascism, anti-Fascism, and Marxists, 1918-1939, " Columbia Univ. Press, 1987. Thanked in the acknowledgements is Dorothy Healey, in the CPUSA till early '73 (see her great autobio. from Oxford Univ. Press), so anti-Communist seems a stretch to attach to Ceplair. Anti-Stalinist, yes... Michael Pugliese, being obnoxious today... P.S. Thalheimer on Bonapartist interpretation, Thalheimer, Bonapartism and Fascism," Telos, Summer 1979 http://chgs.hispeed.com/Contact_Information/Franklin_Adler/franklin_adler.ht ml