...Douglas G. Morris The advent of the Nazi regime challenged the thinking of the Jewish Social Democrats Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann. Law partners and intellectual companions in the Weimar Republic, they anguished about how to resist the new regime and justify that resistance. Nothing foretold...

... of the primary ideological motivations behind the Christian Democratic Union, whose leaders, voters, and ministers of labor were predominantly Catholic. Some version of this narrative can be traced throughout Europe. This article focuses on the Rhineland, the center of social Catholic thinking in Germany...

... provided the historical background for his theory of social democratic assimilation in Aufstieg und Krise der deutschen Sozialdemokratie . Flechtheim, too, picked up on the theme in his article “Die Anpassung der SPD.” For a later critique of social democracy along similar lines, see Laclau and Mouffe...

... “progressive elements of the nation” that were saddled “with the implementation of the most unpopular measures,” precisely “as in 1918,” when it had been Social Democrats who sought to alle- viate the situation created by the actions of German reactionaries years ear- lier.6 Of course, the rebirth of Die...

...Anne Fuchs This article investigates how the Dresden of Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm ( The Tower , 2008) creates a complex psychotopography of the German Democratic Republic through an ethnographically inflected mode of realism. Tracing how the main localities map out the hidden social and political...

... and construction under National Socialism in 1934–36, and at the time of the composition and installation of Max Lingner's socialist-realist mural in the GDR in 1950–53. Remarkably similar patterns emerge in each dictatorship, as the site's cultural-political present was inhabited not only by the regimes...

... particular past (e.g., National Socialism or the German Democratic Republic), or can it be understood in terms of a relationship to past time as such? This article argues that the productivity of “lateness” becomes evident in artistic framings of remnants, which interrogate memory in this “late” city. Works...

... extent, also lived these values. They made visible certain aspects that real-existing socialism was lacking and offered pluralistic opinions and a space to contest the state’s ideology. The Gewandhaus’s architecture, art, and (musical) events offered democratic means such as freedom of speech, assembly...

... debate between the Social Democrat Ström and the Communist Rogeby on Sweden’s modern political history. Culminating their respective viewpoints on the workers’ movement into a chorus, the narrator’s assembly makes for a suggestive approach to resistance’s possible resets, elaborations, and modifications...

.... From the 1950s on, however, the state and main political parties were preoccupied with and divided by what they perceived as the more visible and vocal danger from groups more radical than the Mary Nolan  111 increasingly centrist Social Democratic...

... Revolution The Nazis’ assault on Weimar’s democratic structures involved three distinct imaginaries: the workers as the personification of political struggles and social changes, the Reich as the realm of German dreams of nation and empire, and, functioning as the mediator between the respective...

... relationship with the Social Democrats. Following the book’s general scheme, which resembles a political Bildungsro- man in the way it amalgamates the unfolding of National Socialist (NS) ideol- ogy with a—heavily fictionalized—account of Hitler’s own development, the conflict with social democracy...

..., as well as leading Social Democrats and opponents of the regime like the publicist Carl von Ossietzky. Thousands were arrested in the weeks that followed. In addition to van der Lubbe, four persons were charged with conspiracy to commit arson: the chief of the communist delegation...

... of resistance, depicting it as “a foundation of the Second Republic,” 21 without conceding its marginal role in Austria. The narrative, to a great extent, resembled an homage paid to social democrats, who were presented as supporters of parliamentary democracy, and to communists struggling against Austrian...

.... 1 2  John Heartfield’s Thälmann Montages the need to distinguish between German National Socialism and the Sozial­ demokratische Partei Deutschlands (German Social Democratic Party; SPD). Stalin regarded the latter as the moderate wing of fascism and the main enemy of communism. Hence...

... revolutionary music unfolded in the midst of a constitutional crisis in the German Empire. With details of the colo- nial war in Southwest Africa coming to light (including genocide of the Her- ero and Namaqua), the Center and Social Democratic parties vetoed military budget increases. Unable...

... far more widely in postwar Europe than historians have noted. A diverse group of thinkers and politicians, includ- ing conservative Christians and secular Social Democrats, converged around the notion of human rights, which they fashioned into their new ideology, and 58. Bates, European...

... Antideutsche represented the far-left end of the spectrum of reunification skepticism. They criticized the response of the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; SPD) to reunification, which they perceived as uncritical support for the nation’s return to great-power status...

... Guidance? Social-Scientific Analyses of Fascism and National Socialism in Germany before 1933,” in Sociology Responds to Fascism, ed. Stephen P. Turner and Dirk Käsler (London: Routledge, 1992), 90. 62 Max Weber and Charisma right wing of the Social Democratic Party, this group of young...

... of the image—as an equal, individual member of the democratic civic groups depicted in these group portraits. Riegl’s analysis, I argue, is paralleled by Lukács’s explanation of the way reification renders subjects in bourgeois society powerless to intervene in social processes—as well as hinting at its...