Re: Austrian fascists

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not sure what you're trying to say. A united front between the KPD and
> SPD wouldn't have stopped the rise of National Socialism, as both parties'
> politics were anti-working class.

Perhaps this would be true in the finite and brilliant schema of some small
newsletter, but there is every reason to believe that the Soc Dems and the
Communists would have easily been able to stop the Nazi's as a coalition.
There is even an argument to be made as to whether the Communists could have
instigated some form of frontal assault. The problems lie in three
directions: The social democrats, acting like well, social democrats, would
have physically defended the German state rather than let it be overthrown.
There is of course the Luxemburg/Liebnict (sp?) evidence. Even more telling
is the fact that even the SD's had their own street gangs.
The Stalinists were hopelessly unwilling to think for themselves- witness
the flip flops in policy. And of course, their "opposition", the small
Trotskyist groups were all doing their best "a plague on all your houses".
The tragedy of the rise of the Nazi party illustrates better than almost any
other the need to bury this Srotsky/Talin sectarian nonsense, at least as
much as it plays out in the streets. Had there have been a real initiative
from the KPD to go on the offensive, despite Moscow, I do not see how, in
context, one could have called that "anti-working class".
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Macdonald Stainsby
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