DerScheisser is a great meme sub if you just want to dunk on Wehraboos and Neonazis, but is still predominantly shitlib. It literally bans anyone who says anything positive about the USSR beyond "they killed Nazis". Really goes to show you that Liberals would go through the Weimar motions that put the Nazis in power in the first place again in a heartbeat so long as they stop the commies in the process.
EDIT: Late link.
Also. Before I forgot, and because I just read an actual book on this: The SDP Freikorps alliance did not arise out of the Spartacist uprising., or any other kind of move by the left. The alliance was made in anticipation of and to counter the possibility of any left agitation. The freikorps became the violent and fascist organisations they are known as directly under the supervision of Noske. The plan was always to have fascist paramilitary death squads undergirding the social democratic regime
(Which of course is funny when you remember that the freikorps leadership would all side either with the Nazis, or in isolated cases merely call for the overthrow of the Republic.)
Also also. And i cannot stress this enough. The 1918 post revolutionary SDPgovernment were not elected and did not gain power through popular legitimacy. The uprisings in 1918 was led by workers, and none of their leaders or groups pointed to the democrats , indeed the social democratic leadership explicitly opposed both revolutionary worker groups and the occupation of the Reichstag. However Ebert was appointed chancellor by the sitting government as a sort of compromise, and immediately went to work subverting impromptu workers groups and revolutionary movements
The Council of the People's Deputies was a sham from the start.
as i just researched in my black book post, the freikorps and friends got roughly 6500 german leftists and civilians dead, and over 3k in latvia dead too. they would then rebrand as nazis.
Can I ask for a good reading on this? I’m interested in reading more about it in depth beyond online articles and (pop) history shows.
I read Robert Gerwarth's new book November 1918: The German Revolution