also, Luxemburg and Liebnicht were killed during an armed attempt to stop elections the SPD was certain to win. Rosa Luxemburg was the Ashli Babbitt of communism.
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Tankies talk a lot about how the Social Democrats betrayed the Communists during the Weimar era as an example of liberals siding with fascism over leftism, but they never seem to talk about how the Stalinists betrayed all the other leftists (and many liberals) during the Spanish Civil War
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She was *murdered* after the uprising by the far-right and later Nazi Freikorps, enlisted to fight by the gov.
This is what I mean of the inability of liberals and the left to engage with one another instead of with monstrous strawmen
though i suppose, looking at the death toll of the gulags and the holodomor, 'we will fucking murder you' is accurate for a remarkably wide value of 'you'
As for SPD collaboration with the Freikorps I am somewhat more sympathetic. Either allow the country to descend into civil war or end it quickly. Very between a rock and a hard place situation