Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Both the Communists and the Nationalists (Monarchists) have a common enemy?the Socialists. It has been common knowledge for years that the two parties were slowly drifting together. Nevertheless all Berlin was startled to read in Die Rote Fahne, Communist daily, articles from Karl Radek, Soviet Government's able propagandist, and Count von Reventlow, apostle of the ex-All Highest...
...alarm felt, particularly in Socialist circles, was undoubtedly accentuated by memories of the Spartacan Rebellion of 1919 and the Kapp Putsch of 1920, the one Communist, the other Monarchist. With both parties stronger than ever they have been since the War, their proposed temporary fusion is indeed food for serious thought...
Radek then went on to say that there really is little difference between the Communist and Nationalist program. He also printed out that the Bolshevik coup d'état was effected with 70,000 men, whereas the strength of the Communist party is more than...
Radek concluded: "A million members of the Communist Party in Germany must be the objective reached in the immediate future. The time for a general attack is not yet here, but it is ripening. . . .The strategic task of German Communism, therefore, is to further the ripening of revolution through organization work...
...optimists to the contrary, Russia is not going to turn capitalistic overnight. The Communist rule has come to stay. Superficial capitalism is permitted. When it threatens to become powerful the Communists tax it out of existence. Then they relent and the stores open again...