German Commies and Social Fascists

Alex LoCascio alexlocascio at juno.com
Fri Feb 26 11:24:38 PST 1999


On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:02:31 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
> I'm sure the German Communists thought they were
>following some higher revolutionary principle in denouncing the Social
>Democrats as social fascists, but the only revolution that was promoted
by
>that stance was Hitler's.

Doug, I agree that the "after Hitler, us" line ultimately proved to be self-destructive, but the German Communists certainly had a valid enough reason to distrust the Social Democrats after the latter crushed the Spartacist uprising.

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