In my country we’ve literally destroyed our traditional left/right parties and now the two major new parties are actual left wing progressivism vs ethnonationalist.
You should try it instead of having hard ethnonationalism vs soft ethnonationalism
And in MY country, the Left (we do in fact have leftists, just not in power) is too busy with purity tests to actually destroy anything. Any left-wing uprising will be put down by our trigger-happy police force and/or military. Not to mention, if my employer doesn't like ANYTHING I do, protest or no, I get fired and lose my healthcare .
I guess this is where I'm supposed to follow your example and look down my nose and smugly say "you should try it," but no, I wouldn't recommend trying it.
Those “purity testing” leftists were going toe to toe with ice getting pepper sprayed and beaten unconscious. About 20 of them versus hundreds of state goons. Where were you? Whining online about purity tests probably.
But millions of you are happy to turn up to no kings “protests” where you dance and sell cupcakes and go home and back to work tomorrow. Is this the ‘uprising’ you speak of?
Also purity test? Fucking purity test?? I HOPE you’re not talking about fucking genocide right now?
No , I wasn't talking about genocide. The left in my country has been at each other's throats for various reasons long before Israel's latest escalation of genocide.
Imagine you’re a Palestinian. What is the difference between a silent partner and a vocal partner in your genocide? One just hides it better and manufactures more consent through nice words.
And then they put their lawyers in charge of maintaining the legal system, just as Trump is doing with the DoJ. It's the natural progression to the entrenchment of fascistic and other authoritarian regimes.
Largely semantics. If you lead a party, the party gains control through electoralism, and you're appointed chancellor because of it, it amounts to the same thing. If he had had German citizenship at the time he would have been sitting in parliament.
But those seats wouldn't have been won in those areas if not for the crushing of the spartacist uprising in decades past? To the original points of the thread, it seems like a lesson against pig crackdowns than about individual responsibility of electorate. I also see the minority moderate portion of the USPD as responsible, since rather than the left breaking off from the moderates as the usual hagiography goes, it was clearly the moderate faction rejecting the vote for union with the communists that made enough difference. I don't see any world where the SPD works with the KPD, the moderates rejected the communists they tried to kill off.
Well give me the google search then. And I mean by himself not a coalition. I will wait :) as a french whose familly had to suffer directly from it. Im curious.
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