ML’s and (real) anarchists have more in common than either do with socdem entriest dipshits. The SPD rejected both anarchists and the KPD during the second international. The anarchists broadly aligned more with the KPD and both were rebuked and thus it is solely on the SPD that the Nazis won out because the only “left” group to collaborate with the Nazis were the social democrats.
See also the Battle of the Ruhr, were anarchists from the syndicalist FAUD, communists from the KPD and democratic socialists from the USPD fought together and … were murdered by the Freikorps on behalf of the SPD federal government.
It should be noted that when the uprising started as a response to the reactionary Kapp coup, it was a united front project that included support from local SPD chapters. In fact, it was the SPD who had called for a general strike to counter the coup by reactionary generals Kapp and von Lüttwitz, and in the leftist dominated Ruhr Area that escalated to the point were the left and center left forces quickly levied an army of 50,000 fighters that defeated local police and the Freikorps and then occupied the entire Ruhr Area and adjacent parts of the Lower Rhine Valley like Düsseldorf to form a council republic. Not only a fairly large area, but also at the time the heart of Germany’s industrial production forces.
Then, after a general strike forced the Kapp putschists to surrender and return power to the SPD, they immediately sent in the Freikorps to crush the uprising at the Ruhr. Including Freikorps bands that had just participated in the Kapp coup.
There’s a ton of similar examples of betrayal from the SPD in the early years of the Weimar Republic, i just picked this one specifically because you specifically mentioned anarchists.
Damn I really need to read more about this period in Germany. Also apparently so do many of the more sectarian MLs on here and lemmygrad. Anarchists (not the terminal online anti-communist brainwormed ones) are not our enemies. Hell where I am most of the cool on the ground shit is done by anarchists.
ML’s and (real) anarchists have more in common than either do with socdem entriest dipshits. The SPD rejected both anarchists and the KPD during the second international. The anarchists broadly aligned more with the KPD and both were rebuked and thus it is solely on the SPD that the Nazis won out because the only “left” group to collaborate with the Nazis were the social democrats.
See also the Battle of the Ruhr, were anarchists from the syndicalist FAUD, communists from the KPD and democratic socialists from the USPD fought together and … were murdered by the Freikorps on behalf of the SPD federal government.
It should be noted that when the uprising started as a response to the reactionary Kapp coup, it was a united front project that included support from local SPD chapters. In fact, it was the SPD who had called for a general strike to counter the coup by reactionary generals Kapp and von Lüttwitz, and in the leftist dominated Ruhr Area that escalated to the point were the left and center left forces quickly levied an army of 50,000 fighters that defeated local police and the Freikorps and then occupied the entire Ruhr Area and adjacent parts of the Lower Rhine Valley like Düsseldorf to form a council republic. Not only a fairly large area, but also at the time the heart of Germany’s industrial production forces.
Then, after a general strike forced the Kapp putschists to surrender and return power to the SPD, they immediately sent in the Freikorps to crush the uprising at the Ruhr. Including Freikorps bands that had just participated in the Kapp coup.
There’s a ton of similar examples of betrayal from the SPD in the early years of the Weimar Republic, i just picked this one specifically because you specifically mentioned anarchists.
Damn I really need to read more about this period in Germany. Also apparently so do many of the more sectarian MLs on here and lemmygrad. Anarchists (not the terminal online anti-communist brainwormed ones) are not our enemies. Hell where I am most of the cool on the ground shit is done by anarchists.