TIL the South Africa pro-apartheid party won elections in 1948 and instituted apartheid despite winning fewer votes than the anti-apartheid party
TIL the South Africa pro-apartheid party won elections in 1948 and instituted apartheid despite winning fewer votes than the anti-apartheid party
Massively oversimplified. But there gets a point, if enough people rise up, that the stronghold on power loosens.
Ah yes, good old “but we need peaceful protest”.
Like the social democrats in Nazi germany condemning those who rebelled in the street because they caused damage.
The KPD was shit. That doesn’t excuse what the SPD did. As always, just because two bad things happen doesn’t take away for the first thing being bad.
There were plenty of grassroots anarchist and communist riots (unaffiliated with the KPD) that did a lot of good.