I’ve got Redditors using this as an example of the KPD voting with the Nazis against the SPD. Saying they formed a “voting block” with them. Apparently it was supported by Stalin? What context am I missing here?
I’ve got Redditors using this as an example of the KPD voting with the Nazis against the SPD. Saying they formed a “voting block” with them. Apparently it was supported by Stalin? What context am I missing here?
Voting with fascists on specific issues does not equal and alliance with fascists. The left and the fash acts as they do for widely different reasons and sometimes the leftist desire to improve life for the masses and raise class consciousness coincidences with the need for fascists to build a faux-populist image.
Saying that this makes the left and the fash allies is almost as nonsensical as saying that the fact that both Hitler and Stalin had moustaches did.
If such a left-fash alliance existed it is also weird that the left were the first to be murdered by the Nazis, long before they got around to milquetoast liberals.