1/ Who created the Freikorps? The socialist chancellor Ebert. What were the Freikorps? A group of paid merecenaries. What does this teach us about contemporary America during a crisis of democracy?
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6/ Hypothesis: Growing domestic tensions & political division in the US will result in an expansion of private military contractors being used to perform state functions. Trump is not US fascism, but will bring about conditions whereby something v like a Freikorps will emerge.
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7/ In other words, what was developed by the left—as with Ebert’s use of the Freikorps—will aid the radical right. An interesting little dialectic.
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