SUPPLEMENT: Before, during and after March
Ben Lewis explores the multiple causes behind what was a badly calculated bid to artificially induce
revolution in Weimar Germany
Heavens above, what is going on here! Genuine remorse, even if enforced, or nothing of the kind? Do you really know what you have done? The best action, the noblest and highest cause . a cause that god just for once put in your hands, you have treated like muck in a pigsty
(Gerhart Hauptmann
Our path against putschism)
This article, which is based on a talk I gave to the Online Communist Forum in March, represents a first attempt to revisit and reinterrogate the complex chain of events known as the ‘March Action’ or - more accurately - the ‘March struggles’ of 1921, which culminated in a failed attempt to bring about a general strike nationally and seize power by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). However, looking back a hundred years on, things appear more like a ‘Whodunnit’.
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Chomsky Promoting Bumper Sticker History
Chomsky uses misconceptions about the history of German radicalism to argue for lesser evil voting.
Noam Chomsky has been a very important figure in my political development. As a teenager just being acquainted with Anarchism he supplied an influential public voice that identified with the Anarchist tradition. Today Chomsky is important to me for what one might call negative reasons. As I have acquainted myself more with Anarchism and the reality of the modern world I have found Chomsky s voice increasingly influential in the wrong directions. Chomsky, for me, has ceased to be a voice for a radical alternative to the status quo and more and more become a voice for the status quo s preservation, it s loyal opposition. His rhetoric around the 2016 and 2020 election cycles have fallowed this trend.
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