Chris Hu said:
Actually, the SPD started out being much more left than they are today. People sure like to forget that they put out a hit on and assassinated Rosa Luxemburg even though she was once prominent member of the SPD party. |
Yeah, all of the talk about parties moving further-left in developed countries seems to only make sense if one looks at history as starting in the neo-liberal era of the 80's and 90's. The original SPD was reformist, but it definitely wanted a genuine socialist society at the end of the day, and the party ideology was very much marxist. Does that even exist in today's party or do the few socialists just join Die Linke?
As for the Luxemburg point, arguably they enabled her assasination because she was more left-wing than them on the topics of war, imperialism, and the immediate need for a revolution to bring about a (council-)communist society. But that is still a very left wing position for a 2026 world where socialism is barely existent politically.
