10 Citations
A different antifascism. An analysis of the Rise of Nazism as seen by anarchists during the Weimar period
- ArtHistory of European Ideas
- 2021
ABSTRACT The article examines some thoughts on the rise of National Socialism by Rudolf Rocker and Gerhard Wartenberg, two figures of fundamental significance in the anarchism of the Weimar Republic,…
‘March Separately, But Strike Together!’ The Communist Party’s United-Front Policy in the Weimar Republic
- Political Science, History
- 2020
The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) first coined the united-front policy in 1921, representing a promising effort to bolster Communist influence in the workers’ movement of that country. As the…
Antifascism, Unity, and Division
- Education
- 2006
In October 1945, the Saxon school administrator Herr Viehweg declared in his report on a regional meeting with school supervisors, “Our school should be democratic antifascist. We know what that…
‘Social Fascism’, ‘Stalinisation’ and the Case of the Saxon Communist Party, 1928-9
- Political Science, Economics
- 2002
This article explores the interaction of Anglophone labour and liberals in the process which led to the creation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 1919, the first international…
The Abortive ‘German October’, 1923
- Art
- 1999
The abortive ‘German October’ of 1923 has begun to provoke new interest in historical writing.1 Russian and German political involvement in the uprising has hitherto been in the ‘twilight’ (K.D.…
Blutmai 1929: Police, Parties and Proletarians in a Berlin Confrontation
- Political ScienceThe Historical Journal
- 1986
In May 1929 illegal Communist demonstrations in Berlin led to several days' fighting as the Prussian police sought to restore order. Over thirty civilians were killed. Communist publications hailed…
Towards a New History of German Resistance to Hitler
- HistoryCentral European History
- 1981
We still do not have a satisfactory synthesis of the history of resistance to National Socialism. A new history with different chronology, continuities and perspectives, different geography and range…
“Smash the Fascists…” German Communist Efforts to Counter the Nazis, 1930–31
- History, Political ScienceCentral European History
- 1981
For most historians in the West, the German Communist Party (KPD) belongs among the gravediggers of the Weimar Republic. Other culprits certainly abounded; still, the Communists are held to have made…
Leon Trotsky's Theory of Fascism
- Art
- 1976
Moreover his analysis of Nazism lost some of its force by his dogmatic insistence on organically identifying fascism with the last-ditch struggle of moribund capitalism. This prevented him from fully…