[lbo-talk] anti-fascist agitation

[Mike Ballard]

Jon J wrote to CB:

(BTW, if the KPD and SPD had as much support as the
Nazis -- actually, when the Nazis started out they had
much more popular support, since the Nazis were only a
handful -- what is your explanation for the fact that
they were eclipsed in a few short years by the Nazis,
and ultimately crushed by them?)
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If memory serves, the KPD and SPD combined vote was
greater than that of the NSDAP in 1932.

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On 30 January 1933 Hitler became the prime minister of
Germany. This was not inevitable at all. Two months
earlier, in November 1932, the Social Democratic Party
(SPD) won 7.2 million votes and the Communist Party
(KPD) 6 million. So the two organisations between them
got 13.2 million votes, while the Nazi vote was 11.7
million, i.e. 1.5 million votes less.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/2000/millennium/chap08.htm
 


The Nazis crushed the opposition because they had
State power given to them by conservatives like
Hindenberg AND because  rank and file lefties were not
sufficiently free of the authoritarian personality
character structures which they had been brought up
with, their resistance to the Nazi domination lacked
the capacity for self-organization which could have
effectively challenged State authority.  

http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1969/human.htm

Best,
Mike B) 



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