On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:00 AM, John Adams wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
>>>> Prior to 1930, Germany was a social democracy (social democrats
>>>> were
>>>> getting
>>>> most of the votes) known for its high culture and civilization.
>>>
>>> Hey, that's another big difference with the U.S., another reason
>>> to be
>>> skeptical about all these pre-Nazi analogies.
>>
>> A true statement which completely misses the thrust of Wojtek's
>> argument.
>
> It was partly a joke, and partly not. The part not was the social
> democracy. There is no left in the U.S. for capital to be afraid of.
The German Social-Democrats had most of the votes only once--December 1918--and that was in Soviet, not parliamentary, elections. Then they went over lock stock and barrel to the counterrevolution, murdering (by the hand of the army and freikorps) the leaders of the left (Luxemburg, Haase, Liebknecht, Eisner, et. al.) Since then no sane capitalist anywhere in the world has been afraid of the Socvial Democracy.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos
>