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Yes, another Communist Alternate History. Considering the sheer number of WWII Nazi/Axis alternate timelines, ones where the Communists do better and/or are NOT Stalinists/Marxist-Leninist like in RL should be considered novelty. Even wrote something about how this came to be from my attempt at an alternate history timeline. May go back to it one day.

Combined the flag of Weimar Germany (Which is pretty similar to that of the modern German flag) with some modifications and the Hammer-and-Sickle-inside-Star symbol of the Spartacist League/KPD.

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By the narrowest of margins, socialist thinker, writer and leader Rosa Luxembourg - the leading ideological foremother of Council Communism, member of the Spartacist League and co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) - and fellow KPD/ Spartacist comrades were able to convince Karl Liebknecht and other KPD/Spartacist comrades to hold off any revolutionary action, believing the time is not right and correctly realizing they have neither the support nor the ability to coordinate the proletariat in any revolutions in the newly established Weimar Germany in the face of the combined opposition by the elites, the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), the yet-demobilized German Army and armed Far-Right groups and factions such as the Freikorps. The planned Spartacist uprising in late 1918/early 1919 would be aborted, which in hindsight saved the popular and experienced Communist leadership from a potentially disastrous rout and purge which would had jeopardized any chance of Communist takeover in Germany.

The Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch in 1920 would prove to be the greatest gift for the Communist cause in Germany the KPD could ever hope for. The attempt by a collection of far-right, nationalists and monarchist factions to overthrow the newly-established Weimar government, undo the German Revolution and establish an autocratic regime in their places would be opposed by the SPD government, who called for the proletariat and public of Germany to strike and oppose the coup. Before the coup collapsed, Rosa, Karl, and other Socialist/Communist leaders such as Kurt Eisner in Bavaria used the opportunity to build popular support among the German people by coming out strongly and openly against the coup, a propaganda coup leaving a lasting, favourable impression which would aid the KPD immensely in the years to come as fellow protectors/saviours of Germany democracy and proletariat.

While the KPD and the Far-Left in general would still be eclipsed by the SPD and others in the Weimar Republic’s elections, their popularity would never dip below 10% following the failed Putsch. The KPD’s popularity and support would accumulate in the decade to follow under effective leadership as they worked to spread their message and awaken class consciousness in Germany, a trend which would accelerate with the suppression and splintering of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) following the death of their leader Adolf Hitler in the embarrassing failure that is the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, leaving the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) unrivalled as the most radical/revolutionary faction in German politics, attracting many working class voters and even disenchanted veterans from the First World War who would had otherwise supported the Nazis. The Stock Market Crash of 1928 and Great Depression along with the economic collapse, social turmoil and political radicalization which followed would be the moment the KPD had been waiting for to finally seize power.

Despite winning only around 35% of the votes in the 1930 elections, the KPD had still became undeniably the largest party in the Reichstag, something which even the SPD government was forced to acknowledge. Desperate the avert upheaval and due to diplomatic efforts from the KPD themselves, the SPD would invite Rosa, Karl, and other KPD leaders into the government, which prompted uproar and agitation from the German political Right/Far-Right. Reports of another putsch by Far-Right factions and elements of the Germany military terrified the SPD government sufficiently for the KPD to pressure for decisive action, leading to the use of emergency powers and legislative passing of ‘enabling decrees’ to suppress the right-wing uprising when they did occur. The brief civil conflict which erupted also shocked, pressured, or radicalized the rest of the German left, despite their reservations and differences, into forming a popular front with the SPD-KPD government, further consolidating their power.

With the capitalist West still in malaise from the Great Depression and haunting losses of the First World War, little was done to prevent the Second German Revolution which would see the eradication and/or expulsion of the political right, the elites, the bourgeois and other reactionary factions from Germany and establishment of a revolutionary Communist state, which nevertheless retained a strongly democratic character thanks to the influence of Rosa Luxembourg and fellow-minded revolutionary leaders (give or take a few ‘unfortunate’ purges of internal factions less receptive to democratic socialism). The splintering, marginalization and/or absorption of the reformist left in Germany would open the way for the consolidation of the Socialist People's Republic of Germany (SVD) as a revolutionary, socialist/communist, but still multi-party democratic state by 1933...

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Ideas, thoughts and comments are welcomed!

Description
Yes, another Communist Alternate History. Considering the sheer number of WWII Nazi/Axis alternate timelines, ones where the Communists do better and/or are NOT Stalinists/Marxist-Leninist like in RL should be considered novelty. Even wrote something about how this came to be from my attempt at an alternate history timeline. May go back to it one day.

Combined the flag of Weimar Germany (Which is pretty similar to that of the modern German flag) with some modifications and the Hammer-and-Sickle-inside-Star symbol of the Spartacist League/KPD.

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By the narrowest of margins, socialist thinker, writer and leader Rosa Luxembourg - the leading ideological foremother of Council Communism, member of the Spartacist League and co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) - and fellow KPD/ Spartacist comrades were able to convince Karl Liebknecht and other KPD/Spartacist comrades to hold off any revolutionary action, believing the time is not right and correctly realizing they have neither the support nor the ability to coordinate the proletariat in any revolutions in the newly established Weimar Germany in the face of the combined opposition by the elites, the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), the yet-demobilized German Army and armed Far-Right groups and factions such as the Freikorps. The planned Spartacist uprising in late 1918/early 1919 would be aborted, which in hindsight saved the popular and experienced Communist leadership from a potentially disastrous rout and purge which would had jeopardized any chance of Communist takeover in Germany.

The Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch in 1920 would prove to be the greatest gift for the Communist cause in Germany the KPD could ever hope for. The attempt by a collection of far-right, nationalists and monarchist factions to overthrow the newly-established Weimar government, undo the German Revolution and establish an autocratic regime in their places would be opposed by the SPD government, who called for the proletariat and public of Germany to strike and oppose the coup. Before the coup collapsed, Rosa, Karl, and other Socialist/Communist leaders such as Kurt Eisner in Bavaria used the opportunity to build popular support among the German people by coming out strongly and openly against the coup, a propaganda coup leaving a lasting, favourable impression which would aid the KPD immensely in the years to come as fellow protectors/saviours of Germany democracy and proletariat.

While the KPD and the Far-Left in general would still be eclipsed by the SPD and others in the Weimar Republic’s elections, their popularity would never dip below 10% following the failed Putsch. The KPD’s popularity and support would accumulate in the decade to follow under effective leadership as they worked to spread their message and awaken class consciousness in Germany, a trend which would accelerate with the suppression and splintering of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) following the death of their leader Adolf Hitler in the embarrassing failure that is the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, leaving the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) unrivalled as the most radical/revolutionary faction in German politics, attracting many working class voters and even disenchanted veterans from the First World War who would had otherwise supported the Nazis. The Stock Market Crash of 1928 and Great Depression along with the economic collapse, social turmoil and political radicalization which followed would be the moment the KPD had been waiting for to finally seize power.

Despite winning only around 35% of the votes in the 1930 elections, the KPD had still became undeniably the largest party in the Reichstag, something which even the SPD government was forced to acknowledge. Desperate the avert upheaval and due to diplomatic efforts from the KPD themselves, the SPD would invite Rosa, Karl, and other KPD leaders into the government, which prompted uproar and agitation from the German political Right/Far-Right. Reports of another putsch by Far-Right factions and elements of the Germany military terrified the SPD government sufficiently for the KPD to pressure for decisive action, leading to the use of emergency powers and legislative passing of ‘enabling decrees’ to suppress the right-wing uprising when they did occur. The brief civil conflict which erupted also shocked, pressured, or radicalized the rest of the German left, despite their reservations and differences, into forming a popular front with the SPD-KPD government, further consolidating their power.

With the capitalist West still in malaise from the Great Depression and haunting losses of the First World War, little was done to prevent the Second German Revolution which would see the eradication and/or expulsion of the political right, the elites, the bourgeois and other reactionary factions from Germany and establishment of a revolutionary Communist state, which nevertheless retained a strongly democratic character thanks to the influence of Rosa Luxembourg and fellow-minded revolutionary leaders (give or take a few ‘unfortunate’ purges of internal factions less receptive to democratic socialism). The splintering, marginalization and/or absorption of the reformist left in Germany would open the way for the consolidation of the Socialist People's Republic of Germany (SVD) as a revolutionary, socialist/communist, but still multi-party democratic state by 1933...

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Ideas, thoughts and comments are welcomed!