The betrayal of the SPD in 1914 says nothing of what the party was during it's revolutionary period.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.p...05&postcount=7 You got it all wrong there comrade. The pre-war, Bebel-lead SPD(Bebel died in 1913) was the flagship of the international revolutionary Marxist party-movement. The reformist influence came from the dominantly right-wing syndicalist trade unionionists(2,500,000 workers were in SPD trade unions before the war). The alleged "chauvinism" of the SPD is a stupid claim, the Second International, and the SPD at it's head, came out against an outbreak of war in 1907, 1910 and at the Basel Congress in 1912 it threatened the bourgousie order with proletarian revolution if the bourgousie launched a war, and in the same year, at the SDP Annual Congress at Chemnitz, the SPD came out strongly against imperialism, German militarism, and war. The pre-war SPD was a revolutionary Marxist party, the original "vanguard mass-party".
What are your political beliefs?
No. What are you?
Let the dead bury the dead.
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