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SUMMARY:The German Revolution: False Hope or Missed Chance
DESCRIPTION:Postscript\, 1924-1933\nRevolutions Study Group\nFour more Mondays\, 7:30-9:30 p.m.\, Brooklyn Commons\, May 29–June 19\n(sliding scale: no one is turned away for an inability to pay) \nIn November 1923\, with the Weimar Republic reeling from the French occupation of the Rhineland and the destruction of its economy by the Great Inflation\, the Communist Party of Germany failed in its third attempt since 1919 to lead a workers revolution. Over the next nine years\, while the German Left became more bitterly divided than ever\, the extreme nationalist and revanchist element in Germany was coalescing around a new mass party\, the Nazis\, who found increasing numbers of powerful supporters in the army and among the capitalists. When the next potentially revolutionary moment occurred with the Great Depression of 1929\, it was fascism that was poised to seize power. Taking off from our readings this past winter\, the group will explore why and how this looming tragedy took over Germany\, and looks for lessons for our own world.  \nReadings will include: Richard Evans\, The Coming of the Third Reich (1st two chapters; book is readily available in public libraries and reasonably priced as a paperback). Daniel Guerin\, Fascism and Big Business (2 chapters; also readily available). L. Trotsky\, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (Introduction by Ernest Mandel and essays 7\,8\, 10\, and 19; can be purchased online; may be in some public libraries) \nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. \nImage: combo of two works by John Heartfield
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SUMMARY:The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A book-launch and discussion with Ingo Schmidt (editor) and Mariano Féliz (contributor) \nCapitalists’ permanent pressure on the working and living conditions of the popular classes guarantees an equally permanent demand for social protections. Curiously enough\, around the same time capitalists turned from class compromise to an all-out offensive against Western European welfare states\, until then the showcase of social democratic success\, popular classes in a number of post-colonial and post-communist countries turned to social democracy. Though the 1990s are usually seen as nothing but an age of neoliberal globalization\, it is more accurate to say that the same decade also saw the globalization of social democracy. With Third Worldism in retreat under the pressure of the international debt crises and counterinsurgency measures and Soviet communism finally collapsing after an extended period of stagnation\, social democracy was the last remaining project of the 20th century left. \nThe ANC in South Africa\, the Workers Party in Brazil\, Communists in India and the former ruling parties in Eastern Europe eventually turned onto the social democratic road. But they did that at a time when social democracy in Western Europe was relabeled as a Third Way somewhere between the redistributive welfare state of the past and the present of unfettered global competition. However\, the globalization of this Third Way turned out to be a dead-end. Wherever parties were elected on a moderately social democratic platform\, soon after taking office the same parties would tell their voters that it was belt-tightening time. Ensuing anger\, disappointment and frustrations opened the way for left- and right-wing alternatives to social democracy but also a quest for social democracy before the Third Way. \nThe Three Worlds of Social Democracy presents the experiences of parties and governments of social democracy from Western and Eastern Europe\, Latin America\, India\, and South Africa. The book offers cutting-edge case studies to present a truly global exploration of the methods\, meanings\, and limits of social democracy. It also explores the potential for left alternatives to social democracy and the dangers of surging right-wing populism.  \nMariano Féliz is an economist at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient.ficas y Técnicas\, Universidad Nacional de La Plata\, Argentina. \nIngo Schmidt is the coordinator of the Labour Studies Programme at Athabasca University\, Canada.
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SUMMARY:Germany 1918-1924: False Hope or Missed Chance?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Revolutions Study Group\nA 13-week study \nThe reading focuses on the struggle to build a united and disciplined revolutionary party in the Germany after the defeats of the Spartacist and then the radical union uprisings in 1919. By 1921\, it was clear that the Bolshevik revolution had not sparked successful socialist revolutions in the rest of Europe. The communists of Germany now struggled to reconnect with the German working class and rebuild a revolutionary movement in the Weimar Republic\, a society that was\, on the one hand\, striving to return to normalcy and\, on the other hand\, slipped easily and often into economic and political chaos. They fought\, but they lost. In the process\, the working class was divided and demoralized\, the capitalist class went looking for a savior\, and the foundations of Nazism were laid. \nIn it’s beginnings\, the revolution in Germany appears very similar to the events in Russia the year before. Why was the outcome so different? We will try to answer many questions in the course of this reading group\, but that is the essential question in this continuing study. \nPrimary reading: Pierre Broue\, The German Revolution. Other readings include selected original documents and selections from Haffner\, Failure of a Revolution\, and Angress\, The Stillborn Revolution. Copies of the Broue book are available at a discount to reader participants in this study. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
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SUMMARY:The German Revolution 1918-1924
DESCRIPTION:The German Revolution 1918-1924: False Hope or Missed Chance?\nRevolutions Study Group at The MEP\n12-week session\nMondays\, October 3-December 19\, 7:30-9:30 p.m. \nAt the end of 1918\, the workers of Germany rose up and overthrew the Kaiser. The Bolsheviks thought that the success of the Russian Revolution hinged upon the rapid unfolding of the a world revolution\, and placed their hopes for its beginning on Germany more than any other country. For the next five years\, fractious German revolutionaries agitated for and launched a series of uprisings aimed at the creation of a workers╒ state: the Sparticist uprising in 1919\, in which Luxemburg and Liebknecht were killed; the March Action in 1921; the “German October” in 1923. They fought\, but they lost. In the process\, the working class was divided and demoralized\, the capitalist class went looking for a savior\, and the foundations of Nazism were laid.\nIn it’s beginnings\, the revolution in Germany appears very similar to the events in Russia the year before. Why was the outcome so different? We will try to answer many questions in the course of this reading group\, but that is the essential question.\nPrimary reading: Pierre Broue\, The German Revolution. Other readings include selected original documents and selections from Haffner\, Failure of a Revolution\, and Angress\, The Stillborn Revolution.\nThe Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
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