On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 09:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > ??? Are you seriously suggesting that the left's "miscalculation" provoked > or triggered the Nazi's anti-semitism?
I'm seriously suggesting that if the German revolution had not failed in 1919, we would not have had the instability of the Weimar republic and the subsequent rise of the Nazis. The miscalculation was that the Berlin and Bavarian uprisings would be successful. I almost certainly would have made the same miscalculation in the heady days after the Russian revolution when it seemed to be spreading to Austria-Hungary, Germany, Europe, and beyond. A united front of the KPD and SPD might have still stopped the Nazis in the early 30's, but the real opportunity to crush fascism "in the egg" was narrowly missed a decade earlier. So, no, you can't place me in the Timothy Snyder camp which says Naziism was "provoked" by Communism, as though the left-wing workers' movement of that period somehow bore equal or greater responsiblity for the genocide against the Jews, Roma, and other vulnerable minorities. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33114): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33114 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109157646/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
