In interwar Germany, the people who stood for democratic liberties and against both Nazism and Communism formed their own militias, most famously the Black-Red-Gold Reichsbanner. Something referencing the Stars & Stripes might make for a good name.
Hmmm... the trick is to make sure both fascism and communism are intertwined. We know the communists killed more, and theyre more subversive. Maybe name a militia after a Jewish majority village in russia that was forced out of russia during their pogroms, or a prominent Jew who was killed by the bolsheviks?
Interesting, never head of them until now. Though from further research, it appears they were stood up by mostly former Social Democrat party members. Following the wiki link to the SPD page, they didn’t drop Marxism as a party plank until the end of 1959.
I’m guessing somebody’s misrepresenting some stuff on either of the wiki pages
To be fair to the German SPD, that seems to have been a formality, and they pretty much gave up on Marxism in practice long before. In 1919 and the early '20s they were actually working with the hard-right Freikorps to crush Communist skulls in Germany's streets, directly causing the execution of Karl Liebknecht & Rosa Luxembourg (Germany's top commie bigwigs at the time).
They gave the KPD such a hard time that the latter (and Stalin, their puppeteer) declared the Social Democrats to be 'social fascists', to be opposed as vigorously as the Nazis. There's no excuse for the horrific degeneracy of Weimar of course, but if nothing else, the SPD's switch (in practice if not quite in name) to defending republicanism against the various extremist factions seems to have been genuine - Friedrich Ebert was no Kerensky (ie. a leader who bent over for the far left and enabled their revolution's success in his country).
There were other democratic paramilitary forces in the Weimar period, such as the Iron Front (fun fact: they came up with the antifascist three arrows symbol that Antifa uses sometimes these days, despite fighting Communists as hard as they fought Nazis), but those tended to be smaller and more obscure than the Reichsbanner.
Holy shit that’s interesting. Although I’m wary of anything that’s related to socialism, I do enjoy whenever people band together to curb stomp on the commies. Thanks for the info, I love reading about this stuff
But we are antifascist. And anticommunist. Its like a 2 for 1 special!
In interwar Germany, the people who stood for democratic liberties and against both Nazism and Communism formed their own militias, most famously the Black-Red-Gold Reichsbanner. Something referencing the Stars & Stripes might make for a good name.
Fuck it, bring back the name. Force people to learn history.
They'll take one look at the word "Reichsbanner" and see "Reich" and go "Wow they're literally nazis".
I mean they do that already, but still...
History has suppressed that the nazi’s put down the communist uprising — stopping the fall of dominos in Europe.
Hmmm... the trick is to make sure both fascism and communism are intertwined. We know the communists killed more, and theyre more subversive. Maybe name a militia after a Jewish majority village in russia that was forced out of russia during their pogroms, or a prominent Jew who was killed by the bolsheviks?
Interesting, never head of them until now. Though from further research, it appears they were stood up by mostly former Social Democrat party members. Following the wiki link to the SPD page, they didn’t drop Marxism as a party plank until the end of 1959.
I’m guessing somebody’s misrepresenting some stuff on either of the wiki pages
To be fair to the German SPD, that seems to have been a formality, and they pretty much gave up on Marxism in practice long before. In 1919 and the early '20s they were actually working with the hard-right Freikorps to crush Communist skulls in Germany's streets, directly causing the execution of Karl Liebknecht & Rosa Luxembourg (Germany's top commie bigwigs at the time).
They gave the KPD such a hard time that the latter (and Stalin, their puppeteer) declared the Social Democrats to be 'social fascists', to be opposed as vigorously as the Nazis. There's no excuse for the horrific degeneracy of Weimar of course, but if nothing else, the SPD's switch (in practice if not quite in name) to defending republicanism against the various extremist factions seems to have been genuine - Friedrich Ebert was no Kerensky (ie. a leader who bent over for the far left and enabled their revolution's success in his country).
There were other democratic paramilitary forces in the Weimar period, such as the Iron Front (fun fact: they came up with the antifascist three arrows symbol that Antifa uses sometimes these days, despite fighting Communists as hard as they fought Nazis), but those tended to be smaller and more obscure than the Reichsbanner.
Holy shit that’s interesting. Although I’m wary of anything that’s related to socialism, I do enjoy whenever people band together to curb stomp on the commies. Thanks for the info, I love reading about this stuff
RWB?
Minute Men
Just call us the anti-marx. We all know Marxism is the underlying ideology here, antifa, blm, communism, socialism, etc
How about Patriots, or Americans.