The Bavarian Soviet Republic was one of the Many other German Soviet republics that appeared after the fall of the German Empire following World War 1, inspired by not only the Bolshevik Revolution but also the Current Spartacist uprising Led by the Spartacus League Founded by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and others.
The revolution in Germany that overthrew the unworthy Kaiser Wilhelm II, at the tail end of World War I, ended with the establishment of a newly democratic Weimar Republic with the Constitution of 1919. This shaky young republic was threatened by far-right nationalist and monarchist parties such as the DNVP and most famously the NSDAP.
In November 1918, when the imperial government was dissolved and Germany surrendered to the Allies, control over the Bavarian state government was assumed by Kurt Eisner, a politician at the head of the USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party), a left-wing splinter of the already socialist SPD. Although a left-wing socialist himself, Eisner rejected the idea of communist revolution and worked within the new democratic framework set up by the SPD in Berlin, stepping down when the USPD was voted out of power at the beginning of 1919.
More extreme left-wing elements in Munich did support a communist revolution, however, and Eisner’s assassination by a young right-wing aristocrat just after his defeat in the polls agitated these activists to more decisive action. On April 6, 1919, USPD politician and modernist playwright Ernst Toller led a takeover of the Bavarian state government together with other left-wing socialists and anarchists, who declared the establishment of an independent Bavarian Soviet Republic. Toller’s government naturally made contact with the Bolshevik-controlled government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Toller's goverment would be overthrow by the KPD leader Eugen Levine. Having received the blessings of Lenin – who at the annual May Day celebration in Red Square said: "The liberated working class is celebrating its anniversary not only in Soviet Russia but in ... Soviet Bavaria" Leviné began to enact more hardline communist reforms, which included forming a "Red Army" from factory workers, seizing cash, food supplies, and privately owned guns, expropriating luxurious apartments and giving them to the homeless and placing factories under the ownership and control of their workers. One of Munich's main churches was taken over and made into a revolutionary temple dedicated to the "Goddess of Reason." Bavaria was to be in the vanguard of the Bolshevization of Europe, with all workers to receive military training.
The republican Social Democratic government in Berlin headed by President Friedrich Ebert decided to order paramilitary units the Freikorps, to bring Munich back into the Reich. The tens of thousands of regular army and irregular Freikorps units steamrolled the Munich Red Guards and soon captured Levine and co. The month-long Bavarian Soviet Republic was dead, and with it the last serious left-wing threat to the Weimar Republic.
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Alexander, M - ‘The New Jim Crow’ (2010)
Davis, A - ‘Are Prisons Obsolete’ (2003)
Jackson, G. - ‘Blood in My Eye’ (1972)
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Reading Thucydides and it's astounding how much great power politics has stayed the same for over 2,000 years. The entire war between Sparta and Athens started over some stupid proxy warsin the Balkans based on loose secret alliances between various city states, with a old great power (Sparta) trying to stop the rise of the new, mercantile colonizers (Athens). Things go horribly for everyone invovled, obviously. Really well written, especially for a historical text that's over two millenia old. A little bit too Great Man/military history for my taste as a proper rigorous text, but I think I'll forgive Thucydides for not applying historical materialism too strigently in his writings. I recommend the text if any of that sounds interesting to you!
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" from the Melian Dialogue, Athens rolled up to a small little island called Melos and demanded their immediate surrender. The Melians had a good number of counter arguments, but ultimately couldn't convince Athens not to invade and conquer them and couldn't repel the Athenian invasion.
The failures of the German revolutionaries, or perhaps more specifically the betrayal of the SPD, is so haunting. Looking back at 1919 and it seems things were on a knifes edge from being a glorious revolution. The mutinies of French soldiers lends some possibility that a successful revolution would at least not have been invaded on that front. I know the west invaded Russia to stop the bolsheviks but essentially continuing a war that had dragged on for years, on the same lines, seems less likely. At the very least it'd give the soviets more time, likely not being intervened in. Looking at nazi Germany and seeing how modern they were, one has to wonder how great a communist Germany would have been. Likely reduced in efficiency industrially and militarily, because capital flight, lack of foreign investment, and probably a more destructive interim- I imagine an actual civil war- it still would have been powerful, and insanely helpful to the soviets and perhaps Hungary as well. What could have been. God damn the SPD, literal fascist enablers.
I often wonder what could have gone differently. Success in the Soviet-Polish war, better organization and sense of timing by the KPD, the SPD not governing, and this one I always come back to: lack of American participation in WWI. Perhaps the war goes on into 1919, Germans are futhur immiserated, and maybe more Freikorps fucks eat a bullet. It's awful, but also sets the conditions for revolutionary actions more than our time line. I think anyway. So, death to America, as usual.
There’s a good argument that Wilson and the American finance capitalist class pushed for entry into the War to deter social revolution in Europe.
Power flickering a bit so really need to finish my cooking soon. I really don't want to cook in the dark. If I don't post in a while it's because the power and internet went out. Night comrades, see you tomorrow maybe.
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If you want to make a chud squirm, get them talking about the death penalty and then, assuming they support it, ask them what is the number of people they believe it's OK for the state to execute and still call the system just. I've been using this same argument for like a decade and no one has ever given me a number.
Thanks to an infusion of dark grant money, our research has successfully demonstrated the first example of completely non-local parallelism within coherent states of matter. Think entanglement, but much more spooky.
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Spartacus League (Spartacists) :hammer-sickle:
A revolutionary left-wing organisation of the German Social Democratic Party, formed at the beginning of World War I by Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Franz Mehring (1846-1919), Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), Wilhelm Pieck (1876-1960), August Thalheimer (1884-1948), and others.
The Spartacists agitated tirelessly among the workers of Germany to stop the war through mass strikes, they organised anti-war action throughout Germany, fighting social-chauvinism in every way they could. Lenin wrote of the activities of Karl Liebknecht in 1917:
‘Karl Liebknecht called upon the workers and soldiers of Germany to turn their guns against their own government. Karl Liebknecht did that openly from the rostrum of parliament (the Reichstag). He then went to a demonstration in Potsdamer Platz, one of the largest public squares in Berlin, with illegally printed leaflets proclaiming the slogan “Down with the Government!”’
In April 1917, the Spartacists joined with the Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany, but remained organisationally independent. During the November revolution of 1918, the group became the Spartacus League, issuing their own programme (on December 14) and broke with the Independents. In January 1, 1919 the League became the Communist Party of Germany. The Spartacus League was largely responsible for the Spartacus Rising and failed revolution of 1918-19.
after cooincidentally logging in right in time for post 100k I think I have no choice but to become a regular poster now, I visit this place 3 times a day anyways.
Just listened to King Gizzard's Nonagon Infinity on loop about 6 times to finish an essay and theres a 0% chance I fall asleep now lol
Thinking of going back and finishing my welding apprenticeship. Only need a thousand more hours.
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If that would make you happy, absolutely go for it comrade
I started it a few years ago until i got injured on the job. Finished the school part, but i wasnt brought back after i healed up. The only problem i have now is the lack of advertised apprenticeships for industrial and commercial welders.
Gonna go cook me some lentil soup, if it doesn't look too much like throw up will see about posting it in the food comm. Be back later comrades.
"You can't just say Bavarian Soviet Republic and expect to defeat capitalism."
"I didn't say it, I declared it!"
What the fuck is Black Rifle Coffee? And was the cashier at my local diner wearing some of the gear?
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Sounds like you need to find a new diner
Coffee for guys who dont wash their buttholes because it could seem “gay”.
Spreading chocolate pudding all over your underwear because you're not gay
