Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century From Europe’s Edge by Dan Diner

Author:Dan Diner [Diner, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: History, General, Europe, Modern, 20th Century, Holocaust, Jewish
ISBN: 9780299223533
Google: hOx_6TxOhzoC
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2008-01-05T20:39:23+00:00

In Germany there was no radical-republican, socially conservative party. The task of defending the Weimar Republic’s democratic and parliamentary institutions basically fell to the Social Democrats. Yet the SPD remained a party of social reform that made use of radical socialist rhetoric.82 Although practically the guardian of the Republic, it was just as much a party of partisan ideology and interests as most of the other parties. It, too, had a constituency to serve. While the Radicals occupied the middle ground in the French Third Republic’s play of forces, the republican-minded SPD leaned left of a political center defending parliamentarianism, hence Weimar’s status quo. The party saw itself as protector of the November 1918 revolution’s sociopolitical achievements, as codified in the Stinnes-Legien Agreement between employers and trade unions. It felt itself obliged to fulfill this “social-conservative” task.83

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