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Seeing someone "vaguelly left" unironically defending the extrajudicial murder of Rosa fucking Luxembourg was not in my bingo card.
Note that even Germany itself celebrates Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht
That the uprising wasn't planned, and that the KPD turning it into an uprising was intended to prevent the upcoming elections are not mutually exclusive positions; that it was unplanned is apparent by the reaction of the vast majority of the protesters who initially sparked the KPD's insane idea that they could take over - the vast majority of protesters were, themselves, trade unionists who did not desire a coup, and did not join the attempted uprising.
As I mentioned, the Bolsheviks had already shown their true colors in dissolving the democratically elected legislature the year before for not returning a sufficiently Bolshevik legislature. They did not prevent it from meeting because it was the 'wrong kind' of democracy - only once it was apparent that they had not won the elections and the resulting representatives were unwilling to bend to their wishes did they opt to dissolve it. Furthermore, at this point, purges of leftist groups on the Bolshevik side had already begun - and, on top of that, the entire point of the Bolsheviks was that they were believers in an anti-democratic Vanguardist state. That was the point of the split with the Mensheviks.
I think that seeing malice in an attempt to stop elections from occurring is not unwarranted, especially considering what party they sought to imitate. Even at that early point, the Bolsheviks were not exactly friends of democracy.
I'm not sure if you're misremembering or making things up, but many of your claims aren't historically supported at all. Also when I say KPD that's a shorthand for the uprising leadership in general, because those guys weren't all KPD.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising#Mass_demonstrations_and_general_strike
Enough demonstrators supported the uprising to force the KPD's hand in starting/continuing it. The uprising petered out due to a divided leadership unable to seize the momentum, not because the demonstrators were uninterested in a second revolution to overthrow the bourgeoisie. Also you keep saying "coup" but, like, when you have half a million workers marching around to overthrow the government that's not a coup anymore; that's a revolution.
True, but irrelevant. Using Bolshevik actions to morally implicate the KPD is fallacious logic. The uprising was meant to create a socialist and democratic society in the form of a council republic, not replicate everything the Bolsheviks did. If you have criticism of the KPD, criticize the KPD; everyone worth having this conversation with already knows the Bolsheviks were terrible people.
Again, that is literally not what happened. The uprising was a spontaneous affair emerging from SPD repression that the KPD attempted to control after the fact. If the goal was to prevent elections, they would've never negotiated with the SPD*. Even if we accept your claim, though, your position only makes sense if you view bourgeois parliamentary democracy as exceptionally democratic and worthy of preservation compared to socialist forms of democracy. Would you condemn an uprising to overthrow a constitutional monarchy and establish a republic in a similar manner?
*See:
Point being: The January uprising was entirely in line with democratic principles and not at all a repeat of the Bolshevik coup a year earlier. Treating those two as in any way the same is nothing short of liberal "socialism is fascism" rhetoric. You should read the Wikipedia article before responding.
I'm well aware; that doesn't change their goals or idolization.
Further on you chide me to read the wikipedia article, yet demonstrate that you have no interest in the parts of the Wikipedia article that contradict your narrative.
The interest in bringing down the government was not the revolutionary abolition of the newborn Weimar government, but the resignation of Ebert's government in a parliamentary sense.
Oh, okay, I should just ignore the coup's leadership openly idolizing the Bolshevik process because they weren't literally the Bolsheviks themselves. I'm sure that their attempt to prevent democratic elections was completely holsum and that they would've been utterly unlike the Bolsheviks in victory.
"SPD repression" is a very curious way to say "The SPD responding to a police chief kidnapping a politician to hold as hostage"
"Put us in a better position to seize power and we'll think about allowing electoins"
Wow much negotation
Yes, abso-fucking-lutely? If the UK is having elections in two weeks, those elections look free and fair, and Labour says "Instead of participating in elections, we want to have a coup", that's a pretty damning admission that they don't think they can fucking win free and fair elections.
"But a Republic would be better!" Yes, a republic would be better - but if your opinion is that a republic would be better even against the wishes of the majority of the population, maybe you aren't such a believer in the basic idea of a democratic republic to fucking begin with.
I have. As quoted parts contradict your arguments, I must question if you have as well.