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#OtD 23 Oct 1874 German left communist Otto Rühle was born. Chairman of the Dresden Workers and Soldiers Council in the German Revolution and later KAPD delegate to the Comintern, he also wrote the famous pamphlet 'The Revolution Is Not a Party Affair' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9602...

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Roger McCarthy

@rogermccarthy.bsky.social

Grimly prescient. Best you can say is that bourgeois democracy's defeat of fascism did give us 80 years of bourgeois democracy - a lifetime for baby boomers like me - before fascism arises and triumphs again.