Fair enough, lol. I agree it was a shitty metaphor. I should have known to resist the urge to make a Weimar comparison. It's always fun to do for the rhetorical impact, but they never really fit and I end up (as you said) just stringing words together.
I think it'll be fine if you just study it more. Making such analogies is not untenable; I have gotten a lot of mileage out of explaining things using the Chinese Civil War, for instance.
A slightly closer analogy would be just using the other entity that I mentioned, the Reichswehr, in place of the Freikorps. Still not great, but it's at least an imperialist organization that the Nazis really did destroy in order to replace it with a much more effective and reactionary force (the Wehrmacht), which did also have members from the old force join the new one.
Fair enough, lol. I agree it was a shitty metaphor. I should have known to resist the urge to make a Weimar comparison. It's always fun to do for the rhetorical impact, but they never really fit and I end up (as you said) just stringing words together.
I think it'll be fine if you just study it more. Making such analogies is not untenable; I have gotten a lot of mileage out of explaining things using the Chinese Civil War, for instance.
A slightly closer analogy would be just using the other entity that I mentioned, the Reichswehr, in place of the Freikorps. Still not great, but it's at least an imperialist organization that the Nazis really did destroy in order to replace it with a much more effective and reactionary force (the Wehrmacht), which did also have members from the old force join the new one.
:07: to a metaphor-maker with a better understanding of G*rman history.
I'm learneding! :gold-antifa: