https://twitter.com/Mateba_6/status/1541449829683011586

From the book Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917)

  • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Now I could be off base because I've only studied Rosa and early 1900 Germany a little bit, but weren't the majority of Luxemburg's detractors moderate Soc-Dems that were already in state power? They coopted the communist movement that overthrew the kaiser to install themselves and continued to use the revolutionary currents dull the edge of communists with moderate thought and to validate and empower their own position. It makes sense to me that a lot of these pseudonyms weren't subject to state repression as much as retired because they were exposed as mouthpieces of the state.

    Of course that's just most of the opposition that survived, anyways. The state at the time really liked using machine guns and mustard gas against suspected revolutionary communists so its also very possible that evidence of greater left dissent against Luxemburg was just destroyed. I suppose I would like to know more about footnote 35, because again I am not an expert on this.

    • captcha [any]
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      2 years ago

      I think your stretching here to assume the people she was (allegedly) doxing were in-power socdems. If that was the case doxing them wouldn't work. The passage was implying she was doxxing rival factions within the Spartacus league or a larger radical organization.

      If they were socdems and this was during the Kaiser then she was probably getting them killed but eventually they returned the favor.

      • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah thats fair. When i think state repression in Germany I immediately think post Kaiser, but you're right that theres no reason it couldn't be before.