Some more historical context on why the SPD is really really bad:
The SPD, even before supporting the murdering of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, already had a good record of rather working with the right or at least not actively fighting them instead of allying with Communists or other leftists.
One example of this is the so-called Burgfriedenspolitik by which they joined forces with the other parties in Germany in their patriotic support for World War 1.
So they for example tried to make sure that the unions they led would hold the line, so they don't go on strikes or get otherwise rebellious against the war effort.
This was what led to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht leaving the party and founding the USPD(independent SPD).
Another example from that time to further illustrate how rotten this party was/is:
In the winter of 1917/18, at the height of WW1, a pretty strong left worker movement formed in Germany, which brought the war industry almost to a standstill by means of strikes at the end of January 1918. But they made one crucial mistake, they let people from the SPD onto the committees which organized the strikes. They in the end were the ones who were able to subvert these committees that thoroughly that because of the indecisiveness of other members, like some from the USPD, the strikes were over by the 4th of February, barely a week after they started.
Here is a quote from one Philipp Scheidemann(later became German Chancellor): “If we wouldn’t have entered the committees, … then the war would’ve ended by January. … But through our work the strike was ended and everything was put back into orderly fashion.”
As we all know the war went on until November of that year.
They really don't. In the 70s, the same SPD led a purge against leftists employed in the public sector. In the 90s and early 00s, they dismantled large parts of the German welfare state, created one of the biggest precarious work sectors in Western Europe and were the first German government after WWII to send soldiers into a war.
Some more historical context on why the SPD is really really bad:
The SPD, even before supporting the murdering of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, already had a good record of rather working with the right or at least not actively fighting them instead of allying with Communists or other leftists.
One example of this is the so-called Burgfriedenspolitik by which they joined forces with the other parties in Germany in their patriotic support for World War 1.
So they for example tried to make sure that the unions they led would hold the line, so they don't go on strikes or get otherwise rebellious against the war effort.
This was what led to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht leaving the party and founding the USPD(independent SPD).
Another example from that time to further illustrate how rotten this party was/is:
In the winter of 1917/18, at the height of WW1, a pretty strong left worker movement formed in Germany, which brought the war industry almost to a standstill by means of strikes at the end of January 1918. But they made one crucial mistake, they let people from the SPD onto the committees which organized the strikes. They in the end were the ones who were able to subvert these committees that thoroughly that because of the indecisiveness of other members, like some from the USPD, the strikes were over by the 4th of February, barely a week after they started.
Here is a quote from one Philipp Scheidemann(later became German Chancellor): “If we wouldn’t have entered the committees, … then the war would’ve ended by January. … But through our work the strike was ended and everything was put back into orderly fashion.”
As we all know the war went on until November of that year.
Man centrists never change do they?
They really don't. In the 70s, the same SPD led a purge against leftists employed in the public sector. In the 90s and early 00s, they dismantled large parts of the German welfare state, created one of the biggest precarious work sectors in Western Europe and were the first German government after WWII to send soldiers into a war.