Astral Codex Ten

Weimar Germany

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Weimar Germany

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Weimar Germany is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 18, 2021 and August 04, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Weimar Germany would have become a liberal utopia”; “the communists of Weimar Germany”; “Weimar Germany was one crisis after another”. It most often appears alongside Scott, BLM, /b/.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 18, 2021
  • Last seen: August 04, 2023

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Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars
May 18, 2021 · Original source
Of course, cultural renaissance does not guarantee political power in the future (otherwise, Weimar Germany would have become a liberal utopia), and it is more likely to give our existing institutions a coup de grace than to save them; but beggars can't be choosers and it's not like there's much to choose from these days...
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August 04, 2023 · Original source
For Hitler, their inaction was insufferable. He had determined that the present period of unrest was the perfect opportunity to overthrow the Weimar Republic. He tried to persuade the Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser to march on Berlin, but to no avail. And so Hitler embarked on an audacious plan to force the Bavarian triumvirs to back his revolution.
Physical terror is outside of liberal norms in terms of the action itself. The power of a Hilter figure grows proportionally to how much physical terror he can get away with. In this, Hitler was helped by the Weimar Republic’s law-enforcement and judiciary systems, which were on the net lenient with him and his SA troops. He was also helped by the communists, who by having their own violent demonstrations, made the overall picture look less like “Hitler is instigating violence” and more like “our political order is collapsing into violence.”
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In late Weimar Germany they had a big red button that said “DISSOLVE THE REICHSTAG AND CALL FOR NEW ELECTIONS,” and everything looked like a Reichstag-dissolution. Hoping to get a majority willing to approve his financial plan Bruening asked Hindenburg to push the big red button. The new elections were to be held in the fall of 1930.