This is a decent timeline, but there's one point that can be improved: in 1920, I think it was the USPD (the party of independents that split from the SPD in the 1910's once it became clear they had become compromised to the German bourgeois) that led the charge for a general workers strike which, after fleeing Berlin, Ebert and Scheidemann of the SPD rallied behind.
The KPD was at first quite hesitant to support the strike, since the strike demands would result in the reinstatement of the old Ebert SPD-led government. Levi, who was ostensibly the leader of the KPD (though at the time imprisoned), was of the belief that the KPD's position was a critical mistake (which it probably was, since even once the Kapp putsch was defeated, strikes persisted for awhile longer with stronger demands. If the KPD found itself as the vanguard, their list of demands which included disarming the bourgeois forces, arming revolutionaries, re-instating worker's councils, socializing many of the industries, the removal of the right wing of the SPD, and more, would have done some serious work towards creating a Socialist Germany).
This is all from Pierre Broue's German Revolution, 1917-1923, by the way. It's pretty exhaustive, is sympathetic to the KPD, but shows in many places where the KPD and the Spartacus party were lacking in vision or cohesion, and how the SPD (which was after 1918 certainly a centrist part) had a strong grip on a lot of the union leadership at the time, which in many cases acted together as a counter-revolutionary force. If anyone wants a link to the pdf just let me know.
This is a decent timeline, but there's one point that can be improved: in 1920, I think it was the USPD (the party of independents that split from the SPD in the 1910's once it became clear they had become compromised to the German bourgeois) that led the charge for a general workers strike which, after fleeing Berlin, Ebert and Scheidemann of the SPD rallied behind.
The KPD was at first quite hesitant to support the strike, since the strike demands would result in the reinstatement of the old Ebert SPD-led government. Levi, who was ostensibly the leader of the KPD (though at the time imprisoned), was of the belief that the KPD's position was a critical mistake (which it probably was, since even once the Kapp putsch was defeated, strikes persisted for awhile longer with stronger demands. If the KPD found itself as the vanguard, their list of demands which included disarming the bourgeois forces, arming revolutionaries, re-instating worker's councils, socializing many of the industries, the removal of the right wing of the SPD, and more, would have done some serious work towards creating a Socialist Germany).
This is all from Pierre Broue's German Revolution, 1917-1923, by the way. It's pretty exhaustive, is sympathetic to the KPD, but shows in many places where the KPD and the Spartacus party were lacking in vision or cohesion, and how the SPD (which was after 1918 certainly a centrist part) had a strong grip on a lot of the union leadership at the time, which in many cases acted together as a counter-revolutionary force. If anyone wants a link to the pdf just let me know.
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