History is off. The KPD didn’t betray the SPD, the SPD did when it collaborated with the Freikorps and other monarchist/conservative movements to crush a potential workers’ republic.
Which while betrayal would mean they had the same goals (they simply don’t) in the context of ‘left unity’ it needs to be hammered into every self-professed communist that socdems WILL NEVER fight for the workers FULLY.
They need to be casted off once their usefulness to the workers has been exhausted.
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.
(CPUSA bad lol but…)
History is off. The KPD didn’t betray the SPD, the SPD did when it collaborated with the Freikorps and other monarchist/conservative movements to crush a potential workers’ republic.
Which while betrayal would mean they had the same goals (they simply don’t) in the context of ‘left unity’ it needs to be hammered into every self-professed communist that socdems WILL NEVER fight for the workers FULLY.
They need to be casted off once their usefulness to the workers has been exhausted.
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.