If it were up to me I would have already created martyrs. A lot of them....
Posted on 09/07/2020 2:22:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan
When political conflict crosses over into physical force, ideological “martyrs” are inevitably created. For the dead, it’s a tragedy, but to their causes, it is often a windfall. In the immediate aftermath of the German defeat in the Great War, the Communists attempted an armed insurrection, which ended in failure.
The revolt was improvised and small-scale and was quickly crushed by the superior firepower of government troops. Berlin was largely undisturbed. Long-distance trains continued to run on time and newspapers remained on sale, as the rebels passively confined themselves to only a few select locations.
But the Communists came away from the fiasco with two martyrs: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. One hundred years after their deaths, the European left still reveres them as the Marxist saints. The American left-wing magazine Jacobin even took time to remind its readers of the name of Luxemburg’s executioner so future generations might despise him. Luxemburg and Liebknecht’s fame outlived their insurrection.
On January 15, 1919, the leaders of the German revolution were murdered by far-right soldiers enraged by the rising socialist movement. The man who masterminded the killings was Waldemar Pabst — a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.
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If it were up to me I would have already created martyrs. A lot of them....
Just remember - the Spartacists weren’t put down by government forces, but by Friekorps and citizen militias.
Yeah, well the foundation of the Nazi Party came from the Freikorps.
In this case they did a very good deed with a lot of pleasure.Perhaps Hell’s Angels might take a hint.
But many of the right-wing corps that put down the commies, including Waldemar Pabst, were anti-Nazi as well. My guess is that they believed in the Socialist part of National Socialist.
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