Communist Party of Germany

Communist Party of Germany ex Wiki
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Paul Levi became the KPD [ Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands  ] leader. Other prominent members included Leo Jogiches, Clara Zetkin, Paul Levi, Paul Frölich Willi Münzenberg, Jurgen Zethner, Franz Mehring and Ernst Meyer.

Through the 1920s the KPD was racked by internal conflict between more and less radical factions, partly reflecting the power struggles between Trotsky and Stalin in Moscow. Germany was seen as being of central importance to the struggle for socialism, and the failure of the German revolution was a major setback

In its early years the KPD was committed to an armed workers' revolution in Germany, and during 1919 and 1920 revolutionary disturbances continued. But the majority Social Democrats, who had come to power after the fall of the old regime, hated the revolutionary socialists and brought in the army to suppress them. During the failed Spartacist Uprising in Berlin of January 1919, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed. they then split into two factions, the KPD and the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), both proclaiming loyalty to the Communist International [ Comintern ] in Moscow [ and Germany be damned - Editor ]............

Under the leadership of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, the KPD was committed to a violent revolution in Germany, and during 1919 and 1920 attempts to seize control of the government continued. Germany's Social Democratic government, which had come to power after the fall of the Monarchy, was vehemently opposed to the KPD's idea of socialism. With the new regime terrified of a Bolshevik Revolution in Germany, Defense Minister Gustav Noske formed a series of anti-communist paramilitary groups, dubbed "Freikorps", out of demobilized World War I veterans. During the failed so-called Spartacist uprising in Berlin of January 1919, Liebknecht and Luxemburg, who had not initiated the uprising but joined once it had begun, were captured by the Freikorps and murdered. The Party split a few months later into two factions, the KPD and the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD).
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They were not the major cause of problems but they were revolutionaries trying to take over. They did not make things better. Had they succeeded the Soviet Empire would have extended to the French border.

 

Spartacus League
The Spartacist League (Spartakusbund in German) was a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during and just after the politically volatile years of World War I. The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion of the Roman Republic. It was founded by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg (see Luxemburgism), Clara Zetkin, and others. Its greatest period of activity was during the German Revolution of 1918, when it sought to incite a revolution similar to that of the Bolsheviks in Russia by circulating illegal subversive publications, such as the newspaper Spartacus Letters.

The League subsequently renamed itself the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), joining the Comintern in 1919. The League and the subsequent KPD were famous for pitched street battles with police and other direct action militant activities, some of which Vladimir Lenin disapproved of as premature, anarchistic, misguided, etc. In January 1919, the KPD along with the independent socialist USPD staged massive street demonstrations in protest of a swerve to the right by the Weimar government (then led by the autocratic right-wing of the SPD under Chancellor Friedrich Ebert). In response, the government claimed that the opposition was planning a general strike and communist revolution in Berlin. The government then deputized the proto-fascist freikorps to kill the opposition leaders even though it was well-known that Luxemburg and Liebknecht were both opposed to any revolution at that time. The "uprising" was quickly crushed by the government of the Weimar Republic; however, the government's reliance on the proto-fascist freikorps in place of the army or police paved the way for a putsch by that organization and, in the long run, for the rise of the Nazis (many of whom, including Ernst Röhm, the founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, were former freikorps).

 

Rosa Luxemburg - Jew, communist, topped

Karl Liebknecht, founded the Spartacus League, topped GSW head

Paul Levi - Jew, mate of Lenin, argumentative, dead fell or pushed

Leo Jogiches - Jew - surly looking brute - got killed

Clara Zetkin - ugly

Paul Frölich, communist, working class, might not be a Jew but certainly ugly enough - see http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=40805. He lived in sin with - see http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wolfstein-frolich-rosi 

Hugo Eberlein - communist, murdered by Stalin

Franz Mehring, communist, bourgeois, journo

August Thalheimer, communist

Ernst Meyer
Following the assassination of Leo Jogiches, Paul Levi became the KPD leader. Other prominent members included Clara Zetkin, Paul Frolich, Hugo Eberlein, Franz Mehring, August Thalheimer, and Ernst Meyer. Levi led the party away from the policy of immediate revolution, in an effort to win over SPD and USPD workers. These efforts were rewarded when a substantial section of the USPD joined the KPD, making it a mass party for the first time.

 

Béla Kun
Was a Jew from Hungary, a politician and an enthusiastic mass murderer who joined the KPD in 1921 with a view to taking over Germany. He was sorted out by Joe Stalin.