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Sarcastic bluesky post saying [time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]

  • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3916·
    9 months ago

    Me going back in time to tell the Communists to stop calling the Social Democrats “social fascists” so they don’t both die in concentration camps:

    Edit: I didnt even read the username, go to https://existentialcomics.com/ hit random and enjoy. Big fan of their work.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      9 months ago

      The SPD used people like Erich Ludendorff to eliminate Communists. The SPD directly inherited the government from the Prussian King, maintained the interests of the German Empire, and killed Communist political leaders prior to the first election of the Weimar Republic.

      The SPD government was the power structure that directly empowered, then acquiesced to multiple coup attempts by the monarchist anti-democratic right wing.

      Now, the Russian Social Democrat Party, on the other hand, won their war. So it’s not necessarily the ‘Social Democrat’ part so much as the ‘Maintaining Imperial Power Structures’ part that the German SPD is faulted for.

      The KPD also went on to try and do coalition with the Nazi right wing too, with likewise predictably terrible results.