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Revolution as Realpolitik: Ernst Meyer (1887-1930) - Biography of a Kpd Chairman

Revolution as Realpolitik: Ernst Meyer (1887-1930) - Biography of a Kpd Chairman

Wilde, Florian
Baltner, Adam
Damphouse, Julia

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 1, 2026

ISBN13: 9798888909195
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 515
Language: English

A new account of the political and private life of Ernst Meyer, one of the most important figures of the German Communist Party in the Weimar Republic.

Mayer was a founding member of the Spartacus League, a member of the KPD Centre after the First World War and party chairman in 1921-22. A passionate defender of the necessity of inner-party democracy against the ultra-left leadership around Ruth Fischer and later the Thälmann Central Committee, as well as a supporter of revolutionary realpolitik. Meyer played a significant role in the development of the communist united front strategy and, as a critic of Stalin, argued against the disastrous thesis of social fascism. Despite this, Meyer has largely been forgotten. Here, Florian Wilde traces for the first time the political and private life and work of this disciple of Rosa Luxemburg, highlighting the strategic debates within the KPD and the alternatives to its Stalinization, inherent in the development of the party.

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