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Turns out social democrats killing communist leaders (Spartacists), being lenient on fascists (Kapp Putsch) then using said fascists to kill communists (Freikorps and Ruhr uprisings) wasn't a great strategy either.
So across the board the whole "building and using fascism as a controllable tool" doesn't work out so well.
We're gonna get to see it again in the USA! Whee!
It's fucking scary
Do you have communists in USA? I thought the species was extinct in the states.
The United States has modern communists, they've read Gramsci and decided to join civil society and change it from the inside instead of overthrowing it in a violent revolution.
They're just not as visible as they used to be. Unfortunately the primary species anymore is the invasive Marxismus Leninismus rather than the native Marxismus Orthodoxus, which was hunted to extinction in the 1920s.
It’s really interesting how people that spout this rhetoric universally just happen to agree with fascist ideologies, or use disingenuous both sides arguments that just happen to agree with right wing trite
I don't see the rhetoric here. It's just what happened and the cartoon fish are funny.
So now is the time when history is rewritten so that fascists can have another try at world domination?
Communists have a long track record of putting tyrants into power.
As do moderates who are eager to appease tyrants.
The German social democrats, the moderate party during the Weimar Republic, were the only party to vote against the enabling act (nazi takeover)
The KPD was banned from voting on the Enabling Act. If they hadn't been, its hard to imagine they would have voted for it.
I don’t doubt that, the KDP would definitely vote against it, but my point is the “social democrats and moderates love appeasing fascists” is not true
The social democrats were the left-wing, Zentrum would have been the moderate party, and Zentrum voted for the Enabling Act.
That’s true, but in terms of Weimar politics, the social democrats were pretty moderate compared to the… other political forces
Neville Chamberlain thought he could appease nazis. Stepped off that plane waving the worthless agreement he thought he had with Hitler. Thought he could go through proper channels and meet nazis in the middle. The whole world saw how that worked out, and what irredeemable foolishness it is to try to appease fascists.
Those who appease nazis today do so with the clarity of hindsight, and know that appeasement and collaboration are one in the same. So long as Chamberlain's folly is remembered, there will never be another Neville Chamberlain. But there can be other Vidkun Quislings.
This whole "Chamberlain appeased Hitler" meme might be trivially true. But it's also banal, obtuse, and a confession that one has never read a history that didn't have to be turned back in at the end of the year.
I've seen prominent politicians and public intellectuals shitpost the Chamberlain meme every time they've wanted to justify aggression or discredit diplomacy. Not to mention that Chamberlain was doing exactly what the vast majority of British citizens demanded of him. Scared as they all were after the Great War. Or the little detail that British Intelligence had produced a report saying that preventing Germany from taking Czechoslovakia militarily was "impossible".
The whole premise is fucked. GB was in no position to dictate anything to Hitler. Would history look more kindly on impotent sabre rattling? Would Hitler have been cowed?
Revolutions hurt poor and working class people more than they hurt those in power. Violent revolutions are not something that should ever be worshipped or deliberately sought.
"We can't work with those dumb-sucks from the iron front; they're too right-wing!"
It took a while, but they did get half of Germany (sort of)
I mean they got GDR in the end, so... Success!