Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht, born on this day in 1871, was a German socialist politician and theorist. Originally associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht later became a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of both the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Liebknecht is also known for his outspoken opposition to World War I.
The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the SPD, Karl Liebknecht trained to be a lawyer and defended many Social Democrats in political trials. He was also a leading figure in the socialist youth movement and thus became a leading figure in the struggle against militarism.
As a deputy in the Reichstag he was one of the first SPD representatives to break party discipline and vote against war credits in December 1914. He became a figurehead for the struggle against the war. His opposition was so successful that his parliamentary immunity was removed and he was improsoned.
Freed by the November revolution he immediately threw himself into the struggle and became with Rosa Luxemburg one of the founders of the new Communist Party (KPD)
In January 1919, the Spartacus League played a leading role in the Spartacist Uprising, a general strike and armed rebellion in Berlin. The uprising was crushed by the SPD government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units composed of World War I veterans). For their role in the uprising, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on January 15th, 1919.
Their contributions to European socialism are commemorated annually in Germany during the second weekend of January, an event known as the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, or "LL-Demo" for short.
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Dear fellow feds, how do you get people to not assume you are a fed? It's troublesome when left wing people always assume you are a fed. It would be good to be undercover instead. Didn't even say "hello fellow far left activists, who has firebombed a walmart today amirite?", sad.
E: wow this bit has so many layers of irony, this is awesome!
The real thing that I was trying to say through this strained, irony-poisoned Schrodinger's Fed post is that people have a tendency to assume I am a wrecker. If you've actually seen my posts it's probably clear I'm so socially inept and such a dork loser that I probably couldn't even wreck on purpose. And yet the only reason I can really talk on Hexbear is because users are required to reasonably assume good faith. Short that, historically people have always decided I am some problem-causing fuck.
In stupid liberal queer discord servers, that was whatever, who cares. Doesn't sound like a useful tendency if you're trying to join like, IRL queer groups though? Or maybe orgs? Why do you think people assume this about me, what is it I do? I mean it's the autism obviously, but more specifically??
Maybe the feds just realize that you'll pick up on them so they fed-jacket you quick to keep their cover.
Oh shit that's a few layers of fed-on-fed psychological warfare
Maybe look into any autism or general ND groups? You could learn from each other and thus be better equipped to join a "proper" queer org. Or if you're lucky you find a bunch of queers in the ND org
Is that a thing, is it possible to go sit in with a bunch of autistic people fr??
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Marx wasn't that good. You should... if you're not busy... do crimes. Chocolate isn't actually vegan and..."
"STOP LAUGHING!!
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They're always too busy to do crimes too
Chat, is this true? SHIT! My handler at Langley is going to be furious...