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Helping fascists will surely show The Libs! (lemmy.world)

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[–] Comrade_Spood@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if there was a historical event about 10 years prior that might explain why the communists would view the SPD as just another variant of fascism? Maybe we should ask Rosa Luxemburg what she thinks on the situation

Edit: Not defending their anti-semitic and other fashy behavior, cause fuck them (they are MLs after all). But lets not pretend like the SPD didn't do anything to attract the ire of the communists.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

There was definitely a power vacuum after the SPD's coalition did those slayings. The successors to the KPD effectively fragmented and they became more or less an extension of the USSR after 1924 when the civil war ended. Thusly the comintern didn't have anything like an independent bavarian state to represent any viable alternative than what Stalin was marshalling. Even so the German communists were split between the competition of Trotsky and Stalin.

For context in 1924 the Nazis and Hitler already had his failed putsch and was already out of jail. The leader of the SPD government, Ebert, was still in power after being given the government from the abdicating Kaiser after World War 1.