An entire legion of Angela Nagles. All hoping to ride the coattails of fascists, to inherit the left after the rest are exterminated. Flashback to the german communists who argued that Hitler was half socialist and should be supported as he would pave the way for full socialism.https://twitter.com/stavvers/status/1056874300131688448 …
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For the claim from Ross: "After a dose of Hitler, the KPD believed, the German people would come to their senses." there is again not a shred of evidence.
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Compare that to the well documented cooperation of von Schleicher, von Papen, Schmitt and Brüning with the Nazis. I know it is en vogue to somehow blame the left for the Nazis, but truth is that center-right parties were crucial in empowering Hitler.
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If you think I'm blaming the left for the nazis you're wildly misreading the original post. I have no idea why you're emphasizing that this cooperation was an exception. Of course it was. Nevertheless these people/moments existed and are relevant in the original comparison.
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Nagle's attempt to push / suck up to alt-right bullshit is very much in line with the german communists who took the "first Hitler then us" line. Obviously there were communists who never took that line. That should go without saying. I'm a fucking anarchist. Many ancoms resisted
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As to the rest, Ross covers a lot of fascist crossover and delusional leftist strategies beyond the KPD's. You can hit him directly about any sourcing issues, but I've heard the same re KPD from anti-ironfront marxists. He has made fixes to some errors I found and called him on.
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I'm flabbergasted that you'd bring up von Schleicher, von Papen, etc -- do you really honestly think I would ever suggest that the centrists & conservatives weren't crazy complicit in Hitler's rise? Complicity isn't exclusive. An critique of leftists isn't a defense of the right!
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