This appears to me as SocDems reacting in a nationalist manner to Germany as a threat and a rival rather than SocDems reacting in a specifically antifascist manner, though they attempted to take those aesthetics. The second the bigger threat to their nationalist interests ended they sided once again against communism and communists.
Within Germany as the Nazis were rising the SocDems kept viewing the Nazis as a far lesser threat than the communists, who they just over a decade ago had literally slaughtered during the German revolution using the proto-fascist militias.
That reading of how non-German socdems responded to the rise of Nazi Germany sounds reasonable, but I think it's pretty far from Stalin's idea that socdems were anticommunist above all else, to the point where they operated basically hand-in-hand with fascists. If fascism can become such a big threat that your social democracy sides with communists against it, your social democracy is doing something closer to conventional geopolitical maneuvering than to picking sides based on ideology.
Bringing up nationalism as another distinct ideological factor is also a good point. There's more to these situations (especially in the imperial periphery) than just fascism vs. communism.
This appears to me as SocDems reacting in a nationalist manner to Germany as a threat and a rival rather than SocDems reacting in a specifically antifascist manner, though they attempted to take those aesthetics. The second the bigger threat to their nationalist interests ended they sided once again against communism and communists.
Within Germany as the Nazis were rising the SocDems kept viewing the Nazis as a far lesser threat than the communists, who they just over a decade ago had literally slaughtered during the German revolution using the proto-fascist militias.
That reading of how non-German socdems responded to the rise of Nazi Germany sounds reasonable, but I think it's pretty far from Stalin's idea that socdems were anticommunist above all else, to the point where they operated basically hand-in-hand with fascists. If fascism can become such a big threat that your social democracy sides with communists against it, your social democracy is doing something closer to conventional geopolitical maneuvering than to picking sides based on ideology.
Bringing up nationalism as another distinct ideological factor is also a good point. There's more to these situations (especially in the imperial periphery) than just fascism vs. communism.
Theres definitely more nuance to it yeah.