Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊
10/ Hier werden Namen von Helden aufgezählt. Ich habe mal nachgeschaut, wer da so genannt wurde. Interessant. Ganz viele waren in der #KPDO, der #KPD-Opposition. Davon hatte ich bis heute nichts gehört.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunistische_Partei-Opposition
Die waren wohl für eine #Einheitsfront gegen die Faschisten und haben bei der Bekämpfung der Sozialdemokraten nicht mitgemacht. Sie waren gegen die Stalinisierung der KPD.
Interessant ist, dass die in diesem Artikel der #BZA genannt werden, denn ansonsten hatten sie es in der #DDR wohl nicht so leicht.
Rosa Luxemburg was released from prison on 9 November 1918, just in the beginning of the German Revolution.
The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution, was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. In the first month it quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire.
Luxemburg and Liebknecht (also just released from prison) reunited in Berlin and founded the Spartacus League with their friends of the Gruppe Internationale. They plunged into the revolution and together with other revolutionary groups they founded the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) on 1 January 1919.
#RosaLuxemburg #GermanRevolution #NovemberRevolution #SpartakusBund #SpartacusLeague #kpd
Georg Scholz, 'The Lords of the World' (1922)
#art #WeimarRepublic #German #Germany #political #artist #capitalists #capitalism #Dada #NewObjectivity #NeueSachlichkeit #Communism #Communist #KPD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Scholz
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/59762
"The concrete-and-steel structure demonstrates the new technical possibilities of the industrial age. To ensure the rapid transport of goods and merchandise, massive interventions were made in the river courses. New canals were created for the coal mines. The family of Hugo Stinnes, on the left in the picture, initiated and financed the construction of the Rhine-Herne Canal, as they owned several coal mines. As a representative of the steel and iron industry, Stinnes is depicted as a walking safe. Standing next to him is Walther Rathenau, the politician and lobbyist for the electrical industry. On the right is the American banker Frank A. Vanderlip, who, with a sharpened pencil in hand, is waiting to take notes. He visited Europe [... in] 1921 and assessed the economic situation of individual countries. Not far from this group stands a scantily clad woman wearing a large hat and hold-up stockings. She is photographing the idyllic scene featuring the Hohenecken castle ruins near Kaiserslautern and a portly member of the petty bourgeoisie." (see ALT)

Die Fäden zog Walter Ulbricht: Am 21./22. April 1946 vereinigten sich KPD und SPD in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone zur SED. Faktisch wurde die Sozialdemokratie östlich der Elbe damit bedeutungslos. Die Kommunisten, die immer die ganze Macht gewollt hatten, triumphierten.
Ah, left unity!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1993171/ah-left-unity