As it turns out, After the Nazis was NOT Them

The Policy of the Communist Party of Germany (or KPD) in the years immediately preceding the Nazi seizure of power was heavily influenced by the concept of “Social Facism”, a political program codified in the 1928 6th World Congress of the Comintern, which the KPD was a member of. For historical context, the Comintern basically existed as a mouthpiece of Soviet Foreign Policy, and as an consequence, of mostly just Stalin’s personal opinions on how this “End of the Exploitative Capitalist world order” business was to be carried out.

The basic idea of the program was that Capitalism had entered a time of crisis, ripe for a revolution of the proletariat, but that Social Democrats, by making capitalism more liveable, could blunt the revolutionary fervour of the working class and preserve capitalism. This led to them being given the moniker of the “Moderate wing of Facism”.

As a consequence, the comintern’s members were forbidden to collaborate with their nations Social Democrat parties, as (in their minds at least) the only way for revolution to come would be by overthrowing the capitalist democratic order outright.

This resulted in the KPD and Nazi party working together against the Social Democrats in Germany, who would logically be the KPD’s ideological bedfellows. Infamously, they joined forces with the Nazi’s in the 1931 Landtag referendum in a unsuccessful attempt to topple the SPD-controlled state government in Prussia, and joined forces with the Nazis in the 1932 Berlin Transport Strike to disrupt the SPD-Controlled City Government. This was largely based on an assumption that a collapse of the democratic order would favor the communists, and that even if Hitler took power, he would alienate the working class and quickly collapse, allowing the communists to sweep in and take power (leading to the infamous Slogan “After Hitler, Our Turn!” Being used by the KPD in this time.)

As you may expect, that did NOT happen.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fascism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fascism)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Prussian_Landtag_referendum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Prussian_Landtag_referendum)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Berlin_transport_strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Berlin_transport_strike)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)#Antifaschistische_Aktion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)#Antifaschistische_Aktion)

The whole concept “social fascism” is so immensely self sabatoging to socialist philosophy that I’m honestly surprised that it didn’t start out as a reactionary psyop. Which it is. Anyone who believes that shit want fascists to succeed just to prove a point.

“Hey guys, the milquetoast liberal capitalists aren’t going far enough with reforms, you know what we should do? Work with ethnonationalists that want to allow corporations to use slave labour! That certainly aligns with marxist ideals!”

Its so unbelievably stupid that basically everyone in the commintern that wasn’t a stalinist said that social fascism was a stupid idea that only helped actual fascists. Too bad Stalin killed or gulaged them all.