Zimmerwald1915
Banned
As practically nobody still living on this Earth knows, April 7, 1917 was the date of the foundation of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. As rather more people know, this party regrouped many elements that had been purged from the Social Democratic Party due to their opposition to the war: the Spartacists, one of the major groups of the revolutionary Left in Germany; the Centrists around Kautsky and Haase; and anti-war Revisionists around Bernstein.
For a timeline I'm working on, which leads to a successful communist phase of the German Revolution (which has many other consequenses that are unnecessary to elucidate here), I want the Spartacists to not join the USPD (the German initials of the new party), but to instead participate in the foundation of the Communist Party of Germany in August 1917. Historically, there was a meeting of the International Socialists of Germany (the other important revolutionary left group at the time), but because of the position of the Spartacists and the weakness of the ISD, no party emerged from that meeting and the world had to wait until 1919 for the KPD, with historical results.
So, I want your opinion: how could the Spartacists have been prevented from joining the USPD and instead have cooperated in forming the KPD a few months later?
I have a few conceptions of my own that I may or may not share if the thread gets long, but this isn't about my inadequate ideas; it's about yours.
Fire away.
For a timeline I'm working on, which leads to a successful communist phase of the German Revolution (which has many other consequenses that are unnecessary to elucidate here), I want the Spartacists to not join the USPD (the German initials of the new party), but to instead participate in the foundation of the Communist Party of Germany in August 1917. Historically, there was a meeting of the International Socialists of Germany (the other important revolutionary left group at the time), but because of the position of the Spartacists and the weakness of the ISD, no party emerged from that meeting and the world had to wait until 1919 for the KPD, with historical results.
So, I want your opinion: how could the Spartacists have been prevented from joining the USPD and instead have cooperated in forming the KPD a few months later?
I have a few conceptions of my own that I may or may not share if the thread gets long, but this isn't about my inadequate ideas; it's about yours.
Fire away.