The Social Democratic Party of Germany was the only party that voted against the Enabling Act of 1933.
lmaoo, it was also the party that:
(like basically all parties of the 2nd Internationale) betrayed leftist internationalism and all the working people of Europe by passing the war funding bill in 1914
crushed the November Revolution of 1919 and murdered Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg through working with proto-fascist Freicorps (enabling fascism to rise in the first place)
commited the Blutmai in 1929
I do agree with a stand Trotsky had as well at the time: that a popular front would have been the right move and that the KPD made a strategic mistake with that. But given that the main function of social democracy is to protect capitalism by deflecting workers movements with empty platitudes and "concessions" and all the history the SPD had of stabbing communists in the back, the "social fascism" theory is perfectly understandable
Say about the SPD what you want, but the KPD also betrayed communism in a way.
Firstly, like you mentioned, the fight against the SPD instead of NSDAP, the party which would have been the most realistic to establish socialism with
The antisemitism and nazi rhetoric present in their campaigns, with slogans like “Nieder mit Judenrepublik“ - “ Down with the Jewish Republic” and calling for violence against Jews
The forced unification of the party und the Führer like Figur of Ernst Thälmann
I am not going to discuss whether their idea of how a transitionary socialist society should look is “korrekt”, however the devotion to Stalins ideas and the exclusion of parts of the because they were to left should be looked at critically.
One thing in regard to the SPD: Originally it was called Socialist Workers Party of Germany, however it was banned for being socialist. After the law banning them went out of power, they “restarted” as SPD, likely because they wanted to avoid being banned again. In the beginning the SPD was quite Marxist and the social democrats in the party were more of a minority despite the name. There also had been significant efforts to deradicalise the SPD by conservatives, for example by giving SPD functionaries roles in government without them being able to make radical changes, slowly turning the party from Kommunist to Socialist to Social democracy to the conservative party it is today. I don’t know who, it may have been Trotsky, but a communist revolutionary has argued that parties trying to reform capitalism to socialism via a representative democracy will always fail due to always either being not radical enough or not mayor enough
I'd also like to make you aware of another thing, since I see the German and European flag in your username: The EU is a (neo-)colonialist/-imperialist entity.
I get all the "Union of peoples" popularity. I'm all in favour of (con)federations like that. It's just that I'm categorically opposed to unions of financial capital, which the EU boils down to unfortunately
Or mb I'm just misinterpreting your usage there :/
The Social Democratic Party of Germany was the only party that voted against the Enabling Act of 1933.
lmaoo, it was also the party that:
I do agree with a stand Trotsky had as well at the time: that a popular front would have been the right move and that the KPD made a strategic mistake with that. But given that the main function of social democracy is to protect capitalism by deflecting workers movements with empty platitudes and "concessions" and all the history the SPD had of stabbing communists in the back, the "social fascism" theory is perfectly understandable
Say about the SPD what you want, but the KPD also betrayed communism in a way.
I am not going to discuss whether their idea of how a transitionary socialist society should look is “korrekt”, however the devotion to Stalins ideas and the exclusion of parts of the because they were to left should be looked at critically.
One thing in regard to the SPD: Originally it was called Socialist Workers Party of Germany, however it was banned for being socialist. After the law banning them went out of power, they “restarted” as SPD, likely because they wanted to avoid being banned again. In the beginning the SPD was quite Marxist and the social democrats in the party were more of a minority despite the name. There also had been significant efforts to deradicalise the SPD by conservatives, for example by giving SPD functionaries roles in government without them being able to make radical changes, slowly turning the party from Kommunist to Socialist to Social democracy to the conservative party it is today. I don’t know who, it may have been Trotsky, but a communist revolutionary has argued that parties trying to reform capitalism to socialism via a representative democracy will always fail due to always either being not radical enough or not mayor enough
I'd also like to make you aware of another thing, since I see the German and European flag in your username: The EU is a (neo-)colonialist/-imperialist entity.
I get all the "Union of peoples" popularity. I'm all in favour of (con)federations like that. It's just that I'm categorically opposed to unions of financial capital, which the EU boils down to unfortunately
Or mb I'm just misinterpreting your usage there :/