"The Old Left wasn't about pushing cultural degen-"
Rühle also proclaimed that "for the first time, the conditions are given for the sexual community to become a union of free people who are neither economically nor spiritually dependent on one another... free love is completed in free marriage."
Not shown here, but the Weimar Republic-era SPD (which was still openly Marxist) actively supported the decriminalization of sodomy and abortion by repealing Paragraphs 175 and 218 of the German penal code respectively.
Engels called the monogamous family "[a] victory of private property over primitive, natural communal property," and "the subjugation of one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period."
Now onto race, the Comintern's resolutions on the Negro Question in the United States outright say "oppressed nation" when referring to American Negroes, this is all orthodox Marxism.
And of course, there's the full endorsement of Black nationalism in the American South by the CPUSA that Seydlitz/Fleur mentioned.
"Our party press was filled with indignation over the fact that Germany’s foes should drive black men and barbarians, Negroes, Sikhs and Maoris into the war. Yet [they] play a role... that is approximately identical with that played by the proletariat in the European states."
"One difference there is between the two. A generation ago, Maori negroes were still cannibals and not students of Marxist philosophy." — Rosa Luxemburg, Junius Pamphlet, Ch 4 (1915).
The objetive of this thread is to once again drill in the point that the residual Old Left nostalgia amongst "our side" is of course abject nonsense, a kind of nostalgic case of "the worse vindicating the bad." The left-wing parties have never been such "friends."
What I have shown in this thread isn't an exhaustive compilation, I mostly drew from archived Carlsbad tweets.
For further reading, I can only recommend his excellent article which convincingly argues that the New Left didn't represent a radical disjunction from the Old, but that the social radicalism and identitarianism were all present as seeds in the Old Left:
“The Gaitanist (Gaitanists were supporters of left-wing populist politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán) Tribe,” a Colombian political cartoon from 1948 showing a horde of gigantic, stereotypically-depicted Gaitanist Negroes knifing a helpless White man, presumably to cannibalize him.
Owing to his dark skin, Gaitán (image 1) was nicknamed "El Negro" by many of his conservative political opponents, most notably Laureano Gómez (image 2), who was the leader of the hardline wing of Colombia's Conservative Party.
From 1932 onward, and in large part thanks to the aggressive attack campaign waged by the ardently conservative newspaper El Siglo (the same newspaper which published this cartoon), “little by little the name 'El Negro Gaitán' gained ground in the cafes and salons of Bogotá.”
Quite unrelated, but this is a major reason of why users who say that Spain's prime mistake while colonizing the Americas was not doing what Britain did don't know what they are talking about.
Spain didn't have the logistical capacity to do what the British did across a much larger swath of land.
An even larger factor at play is population, this was a two-angle issue in our case, firstly, the Amerindian density in regions that we colonized (such as Méjico and the Andes) was far higher than in the Thirteen Colonies.
The following excerpts come from Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, a center-right liberal conservative politician who was extremely influential in late 19th-century Spain, being Prime Minister five times.
It's interesting to compare and contrast the racial views of the 19th-century center-right with the racial views of the modern center-right with their “opportunity zones” and “minority empowerment areas.”
The excerpts come from an interview granted on November 17 1896 to the journalist Gaston Routier of the French newspaper “Le Journal.” Cánovas was the Prime Minister of Spain at the time.