The SPDs record is anti-democratic, they used elections to legitimize themselves then unleashed paramilitaries to crush organized workers. That’s not taking ‘democracy seriously,’ that’s narrowing what it means to protect the state.

Revolutionary democracy is more than just fucking ballots and voting. The entire point is mass participation, self organization and ongoing struggle.

just outright simping for an attempted coup along explicitly Bolshevik lines against a government that had announced national elections

The January uprising wasn’t a Bolshevik-style coup. It was a mass revolt sparked by SPD repression, which the KPD didn’t even plan and which Luxemburg herself thought was premature.

‘history major’

great post . well composed.

I needed context, and it was provided without asking.

Not surprised personally, it was an easy block a long time ago lol.

I think this sort of take is painfully common, I don’t really get why even the weakest forms of lib propaganda are so effective at making their followers dismiss gigantic problems. It’s the same thing that makes people think the democrats are okay actually, and it’s why people here are okay with the prime minister doing insane shit like sentencing a species to extinction or actively advancing the rise of fascism…

Also fuck electoral democracy lol

Might need some more context for what they said linked on this one - seems like they’re just advocating for not violently overthrowing a newly elected system of government in favor of a more right aligned one, but then my understanding of the german revolution starts to break down around when the eighth distinct faction got involved so who knows

i’ve had pug jesus blocked for a long time. i wish there was a mechanism for commenting to yourself why you did something for later reference. but here we are. i don’t block individual users often so i must have been super frustrated with how they were generally conducting themselves