Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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Even so: that period of time where Freikorps effectively disbanded was when they converted into orgs like Consul or the SA starting in the 1920s. That component isn’t as fragmented or inconsequential as it may seem. There is continuity there and it isn’t insane to know about it.
The idea of comparing the Freikorps with the SA is insane. Consul was disbanded in 1922 by government repression. But hey, who gives a fuck about facts when you can play Bothsides™ games?
They really did not.
Oh, okay, so the period between 1920-1928 just didn’t exist, cool cool cool.
352·15 hours agoMacron et co hate the far-right more than the left, but only barely. Once the far-right was no longer in danger of being in control, Macron felt safe to fuck over the left by going with a fellow neoliberal shill.
Dunno, that might be true in general, but he’d only do it when we were in the living room.
Fuck Macron. It’s a shame this won’t remove him.
I really am more focused on the whole Prussian military organization structure and the coalition with the Freikorps, who were demonstrably anti-democratic monarchist military groups in direct coalition with the Ebert government. It is such a major component to the whole SPD-KPD relationship that was so bad it led to Thallman actively supporting Hitler.
The Freikorps was such a major component to the SPD-KPD relationship that… almost a decade after the Freikorps had been effectively disbanded, it FORCED Thalmann, coming into power in a KPD that had had a very productive relationship with the SPD for the past 8 or so years, to cooperate with the literal Nazis.
Fucking insane.
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Ancient Peruvian Metalworker: “This is my fursona, OC DO NOT STEAL”
The point is that under capitalism you can never have true change through reform, this is agreed upon by nearly every major communist ideology.
There’s a difference between “Capitalism will not reform itself out of existence” and “Democracy must be overthrown by a small cabal of vanguardists before the People’s Will can TRULY be expressed”. Unless Kautsky and other Orthodox Marxists are no longer ‘major communist ideologies’
How is highlighting the aftermath of World War 1 and that context leaving it out?
By literally leaving that context out and attempting to paint it as “Mean ol’ SPD went murdering the KPD for no reason :(” instead of literal fucking self-defense against an anti-democratic coup attempt. But fascist apologists rarely argue in good faith.
The critical issue is Ebert (who inherited authority from the monarchy initially) made a coalition with the Freikorps to allow the Weimar republic to inherit the separate governance for the military that existed in the Reich. That was instrumental and core to the issue.
Ah, yes, what he should have done is nobly refused compromise with what was the actual power returning to the country from the front, that way Germany could have enjoyed fascist dictatorship some 15 years early, or a ML dictatorship some 25 years early.
I remember when I was a young lad seeing a magazine about some drama or another involving a ‘love triangle’, and, confused, asking my mother if one of the members of the triangle was gay, since I couldn’t conceive how a love triangle could work otherwise.
1121·21 hours ago“I didn’t say anything of the sort (unless the audience liked it)”
I would say there’s a significant difference in the approach. The Biden administration throwing things at the wall in the hopes that something will stick is a bit different in intent to the Bush administration lying, obfuscating, denying, downplaying, and only then resorting to semantics to cover their illegal activity. Not that Dems have never done that, but the two examples you cited are far from the egregious disrespect for the law displayed by the Bush administration.
In any case, we’re in agreement that Trump is beyond even that. What a shitshow. It can always get worse, it seems.
Fixed, thanks!
Stalinists are absolutely fascists. Accelerationism is just the preferred technique.
I wouldn’t cut things off at a half decade. A little more than a decade prior the German communist leadership were killed by military companies in coalition with the SPD,
Yes, after trying to coup the government before elections could be held. Funny how tankies and their apologists always leave that out.
and then those same military groups tried to overthrow the SPD government, but the SPD ended up compromising with the coup uprising anyway.
“Compromising” here meaning “If you surrender we’ll give you amnesty”. Wow, what an astounding compromise.
There was a general strike!
Yep. And when the KPD started shooting, the strikers decided they wanted no part of that nonsense. But keep trying to peddle fascism.
It failed in large part because the Communists weren’t ready for it and their leadership was too paralyzed in the moment to actually seize power!
“Well, yes, we WERE trying to stop democratic elections, but we just weren’t successful!”
Red fash never change.
The knife reads “che la mia ferita sia mortale”, “may my wound be mortal”
There’s a scalie somewhere who is very happy right now, probably
Not ace, am millennial, I also think there are too many sex scenes in movies. The kids are right.
Thalmann didn’t consolidate his power until 1928, so unless 1920-1928 has a different meaning than the obvious one…
The Nazis became powerful in 1920-1928.
Are you sure you want to keep to that claim.
Your claim was that the Freikorps ‘converted’ into orgs like the SA. Which is not even vaguely true. Like, I don’t really know how to carry on a conversation with someone who looks at the independent paramilitaries of the Freikorps and sees the same thing as a fucking street fighting arm of a minor political party because both are comprised of right-wing WW1 veterans.
Your lack of literacy is not my problem. Sorry that “Thalmann came into power in 1928 after 8 or so years of a productive relationship between the KDP and SDP” is too complex for you to parse.