Seeing someone “vaguelly left” unironically defending the extrajudicial murder of Rosa fucking Luxembourg was not in my bingo card.
Note that even Germany itself celebrates Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht
Seeing someone “vaguelly left” unironically defending the extrajudicial murder of Rosa fucking Luxembourg was not in my bingo card.
Note that even Germany itself celebrates Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht
You need to know history to understand what’s happening when someone defends the actions of the SPD at the turn of the last century.
I did read up a bit, and the spartacists tried to overthrow the provisional government, to install a council republik, instead of a social democracy, and subsequently got their asses handed to them. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were captured and subsequently murdered by the freikorps.
Sounds to me like they just fought and lost. While killing Luxemburg and Liebknecht went too far, capturing them was justified. These two should obviously have been given a fair trial.
Did I miss anything?
Four empires with vassal states in eastern europe collapsed entirely in WW1. The Freikorps were monarchist and anti-republic paramilitaries that sought to restore the German Empire. Essentially if ‘just fought and lost’ is valid, the monarchists and imperialists fought and lost the war, and the dismantling of their Empire was part of the peace treaties that ended the war. But since those treaties were also with empires that collapsed…
The ending and aftermath of World War 1 is the uncompromising context for the entire interwar period.